performance impact of using uuid over int4

From: Benjamin Arai <me(at)benjaminarai(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: performance impact of using uuid over int4
Date: 2008-03-28 23:17:45
Message-ID: C71D5400-A47D-46CE-A643-2952CD2B69D9@benjaminarai.com
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Hello,

Does anybody know of the performance impact of using uuid over int4?
Specifically, I am assuming that it will be about 4 times slower since
it is 128 bits. Is this correct?

Benjamin

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