Re: 1 char in the world

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Matt Mello <alien(at)spaceship(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 1 char in the world
Date: 2003-01-29 10:20:00
Message-ID: 3E37AAD0.8010606@postgresql.org
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Matt Mello wrote:
<snip>
> This naturally led me to another question. How do TEXT, "char", and
> BOOLEAN compare for storing t/f values. The test results I saw were
> surprising.
>
> Test query=
> "char"/TEXT: explain analyze select count(*) from table where bool='Y';
> boolean: explain analyze select count(*) from table where bool=true;
> Table size (see above)
> Performance averages:
> TEXT 24ms
> BOOLEAN 28ms
> "char" 17ms

Hi Matt,

This is interesting. As a thought, would you be ok to run the same test
using int4 and int8 as well?

That would probably round out the test nicely.

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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