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FOUR POSTGRESQL ARGUMENTS THAT CAME OUT EVEN

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PostgreSQL micro-optimization alternatives often don't matter. For 1,000 IDs, IN, ANY, and VALUES joins perform similarly; prefer parameterized ANY for stable query text. Short text, enums, and smallints use near-identical storage; mostly-NULL columns are cheap. Don't blindly rewrite but EXPLAIN on your own data.