Re: match an IP address

Craig Ringer wrote:
> Phoenix Kiula wrote:
>
>> 1. What extra tax will this constraint levy on an INSERT or UPDATE on
>> this table? There are about 100,000 inserts a day, and over three
>> times as many UPDATES. The concurrency is pretty high -- I mean
>> sometimes 1,000 users at the same time but no more than that. If the
>> additional cost of insertion/updating is not too heavy, I suppose this
>> could be a nice approach.
>
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> I'd try a functional index first. If that didn't do the job, I'd use a
> trigger-maintained column _purely_ as an optimisation (ie I could drop
> it and lose no data) that stored text representations of the data.
> Honestly, though, I expect the functional index would be more than good
> enough and probably wouldn't have much of an INSERT/UPDATE cost.
>
> Again, of course, I'd test before setting anything in stone.

And do not forget you know beforehand if you are going to lookup a user
or an IP. So I fail to see what problem needs to be solved here :(

Maybe we can get an enlightenment on where every data comes from and
whats going to be its usage? Maybe we can then work out a better
solution at all? Peephole optimizing is great but sometimes the effect
is better if you just open the door :-)

Tino