From: Nikolas Everett <nik9000@gmail.com>
To: Radhika S <rs88820@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Joining on text field VS int
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:52:40 -0500
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Joining via a tinyint or something will make your large table smaller which
is nice. Smaller tables = faster tables.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Radhika S <rs88820@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am going to test this out but would be good to know anyways. A large
> table is joined to a tiny table (8 rows) on a text field. Should I be
> joining on an int field eg: recid intead of name? Is the performance
> affected in either case?
> Thanks .
>
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