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Re: Patch: add timing of buffer I/O requests

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-04-25T21:00:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On mån, 2012-04-23 at 22:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Perhaps, but nobody's explained what we gain out of NOT using numeric.

So if you want to have possibly different internal and external
representations, why not use interval for the external one?