William Temperley escribió:
> Really I'm worried about reducing storage space and network overhead
> - therefore a nicely compressed chunk of binary would be perfect for
> the 500 values - wouldn't it?
An array that large would likely be compressed by Postgres internally
for storage; see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/storage-toast.html
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