Ron Mayer wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> André Volpato wrote:
>>
>>> The ammount of space saved seems pretty clear to me.
>> Yeah, zero most of the time due to alignment.
>
> So trading off more I/O for less CPU?
>
> I wonder if for any I/O bound database servers
> it might be worth packing tightly rather than
> aligning indexes on one-byte data.
The OP didn't say one-byte data, they said one-char data.
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Lew
