<html><div>Perhaps a little off topic.</div>
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<div>I had been using int8 as primary / foreign keys pairs.
After joining several large tables on the keys, I noticed about a 30/40%
speed improvement just in changing the keys from int8 to int4 data
types.</div>
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Should it affect it that much?
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- <b><u>Thomas Swan</b>
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</u>- Graduate Student - Computer Science<br>
- The University of Mississippi<br>
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- "People can be categorized into two fundamental <br>
- groups, those that divide people into two groups <br>
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