Re: Need help to organize database

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Why would it be?

The only real advantage to what you are suggesting would be slightly
reduced disk space usage, and just maybe *very* slightly improved
performance on low-memory servers, or servers with very slow disks, but
I find it unlikely that this would really be significant enough to be
worthwhile.

There are greater advantages to not doing something like that: easier
coding of your front-end software, a layout which is a bit more
comprehensible, making future maintenance of the design and code much
easier, etc.

Also, given the amount of data you are talking about, and assuming that
you are inserting all of this data in one big lump, you may wish to
VACUUM FULL after doing your INSERTs (not after each one, of course --
after doing all of the INSERTs, or after doing a big chunk of them. If
data is inserted incrementally over a period of time, then just do the
VACUUM ANALYZE every so often during that time, and you shouldn't have
a problem).

On Dec 21, 2004, at 8:24 PM, Vladimir S. Petukhov wrote:
>>
> Yes, of course, this is example only.
> But relation between tables is not important now...
> I whant to ask - is it a good idea to store 1 time's data (value1-4)
> per row
> in 24*31 rows? May be it is better and quicker to store, for example, 2
> time's data per row (value1-4, day 1, value1-4, day 2) or other
> structure?
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