>I am choosing the best (fastest and smallest) datatype for >storing some 16-byte length application-level binary >identifiers. Addition. I've SET STORAGE of this column to PLAIN and speed increased about 20%. Any drawbacks of this trick? PG Doc 49.2 says: "Each TOAST-able data type specifies a default strategy for columns of that data type". How one can find out these default strategies? Thanks. -- Best regards Ilja Golshtein ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster