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From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Query performance
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:40:13 -0600
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On 1/25/15 2:03 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     It might not always be an integer, just happens to be so here.
>     Should I try text instead? I don't have to have the case-insensitive
>     matching.
>
>
> text can be better

bytea would be even better yet, because that will always be a straight 
binary comparison. text will worry about conversion and what not 
(though, perhaps there's a way to force that to use C or SQL instead of 
something like UTF8, short of changing the encoding of the whole database).
-- 
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com


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