2013/2/4 Anne Rosset <arosset@collab.net>:
> I have read a lot of different information about the benefits of using
> numerical primary key vs alphanumerical primary key(small size). And what I
> am gathering is that for performance there is no more great advantage.
>
> It seems like now RDBMS in general, postgres in particular handles pretty
> well joins on text indexes.
Please, take a look at this blog post:
http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/07/123-vs-depesz-what-is-faster/
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Victor Y. Yegorov
