On 7/18/05, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my> wrote:
> However, maybe padding for alignment is a waste on the disk - disks being
> so much slower than CPUs (not sure about that once the data is in memory ).
> Maybe there should be an option to reorder columns so that less space is
> wasted.
Out of curiosity, do I understand right that if I create table
CREATE TABLE sample1 (
a boolean,
b int,
c boolean
);
...it will take more storage than:
CREATE TABLE sample2 (
b int,
a boolean,
c boolean
);
...I don't think such ordering should matter, but I would like to know
how it really is. :)
Regards,
Dawid
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