On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:11 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > For what exactly? Isn't a comparison on 4 numeric bytes (1 (or 1/2) > word in modern hardware) more efficient than comparing sequences of > string characters? What on earth makes you think the db engine compares numbers as strings??? -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
