"Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The following suggestion works in two principles: one is that instead of
> using timestamps for ordering, integers are quicker,
The difference would be pretty marginal --- especially if you choose to
use bigints instead of ints. (A timestamp is just a float8 or bigint
under the hood, and is no more expensive to compare than those datatypes.
Timestamps *are* expensive to convert for I/O, but comparison does not
have to do that.) I wouldn't recommend kluging up your data schema just
for that.
regards, tom lane
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