Re:Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
by derefr on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:18AM
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> things like serial numbers
In Postgres, if I had a truly massive number of alphabetic-textual serial numbers (such that I was worried about their impact on storage/memory size), I’d define a new TYPE, similar to the UUID type, where such serial numbers would be parsed into regular uint64s (BIGINTs) on input, and generated back to their textual serial-number representation on output.
In Postgres, if I had a truly massive number of alphabetic-textual serial numbers (such that I was worried about their impact on storage/memory size), I’d define a new TYPE, similar to the UUID type, where such serial numbers would be parsed into regular uint64s (BIGINTs) on input, and generated back to their textual serial-number representation on output.