2015-12-12 22:12 GMT+01:00 Mark Hamburg <mhamburg.ml at gmail.com>: > Though to the extent that speed is proportional to data size, it would be > good to use something other than hexadecimal to store UUIDs. Binary blobs > would be the most compact, but ASCII85 encoding would work well if you need > strings. > > Also, if these values are reused repeatedly as I suspect projectID and > groupID might be, then it may be useful to intern them into a table and use > integer keys. We got a noticeable performance improvement when I made that > sort of change recently in our project. (I also implemented a > string-to-integer-to-string cache that sits ahead of hitting the database.) >
?That was something I was wondering about. I was saving this question for when I got further ahead. But it does not hurt to have info about this. :-D
