Robins Tharakan wrote:
Hi,
Now what I wanted to ask was whether its any different to have the
primary-keys in such master tables as text/varchar rather than integer ?
i.e. Can I use a character varying(10) and use the text 'million' /
'billion' instead of a serial / integer type ?
One
Robins Tharakan wrote:
Hi,
I am currently designing a database and wanted to know something that may
sound trivial, but I thought its still good to confirm before dumping
millions of rows in it.
The design requires a few master tables with very limited rows, for e.g.
currency_denomination
Craig Ringer wrote:
p.s.: I am not as much concerned with the size that it'd take on the data
tables, as much as the fact that the select / insert performances
shouldn't
suffer. However, if that increase in size (per data record) may make a
considerable impact on the performance, I would
Shane Ambler wrote:
Size can affect performance as much as anything else. In your case of
limited rows it will make little difference, though the larger table
with millions of rows will have this key entered for each row and be
indexed as the foreign key.
The real question is how you want
On May 21, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Shane Ambler wrote:
Size can affect performance as much as anything else.
For a brief moment, I thought the mailing list had been spammed. ;-)
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:27 PM, J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On May 21, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Shane Ambler wrote:
Size can affect performance as much as anything else.
For a brief moment, I thought the mailing list had been spammed. ;-)
And that sums up why I wish to thank
