Re: Faster data type for one-length values

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> André Volpato wrote:
>
>> The ammount of space saved seems pretty clear to me.
>
> Yeah, zero most of the time due to alignment.

So trading off more I/O for less CPU?

I wonder if for any I/O bound database servers
it might be worth packing tightly rather than
aligning indexes on one-byte data.