On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:25:17AM +0100, James Adams wrote: > Yea it would be easier to have everything in one table filling unused with > nulls, but I was trying to avoid that because of the wasted space. > But I think I'll do it that way after all :~] > Thanks for your help
Don't fret too much about the wasted space: NULL fields set a bit in a bitmask in the header of the on-disk tuple, so they take up _no_ storage at all. Ross ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
