Perhaps a little off topic.

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.

Should it affect it that much?
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- Thomas Swan

- Graduate Student - Computer Science
- The University of Mississippi
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