Matt Mello wrote:
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> This naturally led me to another question. How do TEXT, "char", and
> BOOLEAN compare for storing t/f values. The test results I saw were
> surprising.
>
> Test query=
> "char"/TEXT: explain analyze select count(*) from table where bool='Y';
> boolean: explain analyze select count(*) from table where bool=true;
> Table size (see above)
> Performance averages:
> TEXT 24ms
> BOOLEAN 28ms
> "char" 17ms
Hi Matt,
This is interesting. As a thought, would you be ok to run the same test
using int4 and int8 as well?
That would probably round out the test nicely.
:)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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