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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Domains vs data types
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:12:25 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Does the second table have any technical advantage/disadvantage over plain
> data type definition?
> Less metadata in memory? High metadata in memory? Less/increased disk
> space?
>

Same disk space. No disadvantage other than confusing your users, and any
performance differences will be so minor as to be unmeasurable. (my two
cents: domains are best when the data type is complex AND shared across
multiple tables. Even then I tend to avoid them.)

Cheers,
Greg

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