Jeff: > As far as I know there is only a small win when you want to extract some > field from a tuple and with variable width fields you have to walk to the > correct field. But this is a small performance problem unless you have > very many variable size columns in the table.
BTW, Dennis here is not talking about CHAR; CHAR is handled as a variable-length field in Postgres. INTEGER is a fixed-width field. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
