<div>Perhaps a little off topic.</div><br /><div>I had been using int8 as primary / foreign keys pairs. After joining
severallarge tables on the keys, I noticed about a 30/40% speed improvement just in changing the keys from int8 to int4
datatypes.</div><br /> Should it affect it that much? <br /> - <br /> - <b><u>Thomas Swan</u></b>
<br/> - Graduate Student - Computer Science<br /> - The University of Mississippi<br
/>- <br /> - "People can be categorized into two fundamental <br /> - groups, those that divide people into two groups
<br/> - and those that don't."