On 7/18/05, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However, maybe padding for alignment is a waste on the disk - disks being > so much slower than CPUs (not sure about that once the data is in memory ). > Maybe there should be an option to reorder columns so that less space is > wasted. Out of curiosity, do I understand right that if I create table CREATE TABLE sample1 ( a boolean, b int, c boolean ); ...it will take more storage than: CREATE TABLE sample2 ( b int, a boolean, c boolean ); ...I don't think such ordering should matter, but I would like to know how it really is. :) Regards, Dawid ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend