[support] impact of converting db varchars to integers

[Morbus Iff]

> To improve Drupal performance, our client has suggested to change the 
> field types from varchars to integers in some tables.

This isn't really the list for that sort of discussion. For the 
technical aspects of doing so, and whether it's a viable approach, you 
really want to ask on the development list, not the support list.

However, you'd really have to provide benchmarks that showed an amazing 
improvement in performance. IE., how does your client have any sort of 
clue that this is actually a good thing? Are they just waxing poetic 
about things they think they know something about, but don't?

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