On Mon, 2005-26-09 at 12:54 -0500, Announce wrote:
> Is there an performance benefit to using int2 (instead of int4) in cases
> where i know i will be well within its numeric range?
int2 uses slightly less storage space (2 bytes rather than 4). Depending
on alignment and padding requirements, as well as the other columns in
the table, that may translate into requiring fewer disk pages and
therefore slightly better performance and lower storage requirements.
-Neil
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