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From: Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimization of this SQL sentence
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:11:03 +0930
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> The world rejoiced as pgsql@007Marketing.com (Shane Ambler) wrote:
>> Chris Browne wrote:
>>> In the case of a zip code?  Sure.  US zip codes are integer values
>>> either 5 or 9 characters long.
>> So your app will only work in the US?
>> And only for US companies that only have US clients?
>>
>>
>> Sorry had to dig at that ;-P
> 
> Heh.  I'm not in the US, so that's not the sort of mistake I'd be
> likely to make...
> 
> The thing is, the only place where they call this sort of thing a "zip
> code" is the US.  Elsewhere, it's called a postal code.

Same meaning/use different name (that's a locale issue for the client 
displaying the data) they will all use the same column for that data.


-- 

Shane Ambler
Postgres@007Marketing.com

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