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. -- Lew