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From Alexander Deruwe
Subject BIGINT's and indexes.
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Msg-id 20011011085412.A4CFA9BB7C@pop3.telenet-ops.be
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I have read somewhere (I believe in a review of Postgres 7? Can't find it 
right now though) that having BIGINT's as indexes (or primary keys) slows the 
database down, since they are 64bit and not supported that good. Is this 
still true? Was this ever true?

Alexander.

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