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mewpmewp2 on Nov 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

Is there much point in optimising this as opposed to keeping it in strings, at what QPS do you think it would matter and how much?

hoppla on Nov 10, 2021 [–]

The main reason to store it as numbers is because I select records based on what subnet an IP address is in. I can only do this when I use integers.

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