Re: Large databases, performance

On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:48:31 +0530, "Shridhar Daithankar"
<shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> wrote:
>I say if it's a char field, there should be no indicator of length as it's not 
>required. Just store those many characters straight ahead..

This is out of reach for a quick hack ...

>Sure. But the server machine is not available this week. Some other project is 
>using it. So the results won't be out unless at least a week from now.

 :-)

>This time results are correct. Postgresql loads data faster, indexes it faster 
>and queries in almost same time.. Way to go..

Great!  And now let's work on making selects faster, too.

Servus
 Manfred