Re: Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?
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In response to Re: Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On 09/06/07 20:53, Merlin Moncure wrote:
[snip]
>
> arrays are interesting and have some useful problems.  however, we
> must first discuss the problems...first and foremost if you need to
> read any particular item off the array you must read the entire array
> from disk and you must right all items back to disk for writes.

Reads and writes are done at the page level, so I'm not sure this is
valid.

>                                                                also,
> they cause some problems with constraints and other issues that come
> up with de-normalization tactics.

ACK.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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