On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 07:44:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The difference in performence will be determined by the cost of
> > comparison. The cost of comparing strings is much higher than for
> > integers, so it will be slower.
>
> And comparing INT8 is more expensive on a 32-bit system.
The difference between int4 and int8 is probably negligable.
> Since TEXT is totally variable, is there a big difference in TEXT vs
> CHAR(8)?
Nothing measurable I'd think. It's probably the same code.
Have a nice day,
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