Re: [HACKERS] Bug?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO (Tom I Helbekkmo)
Cc: meskes@topsystem.de, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-06T18:00:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> Bruce Momjian said:
> 
> > The only fix for this would be to read all integers in as 64-bit
> > integers, then do the conversion, but that could be a performance
> > problem.
> 
> Michael Meskes answered:
> 
> > I agree. And performance is important. I think explicit type
> > conversion is what we should do. Or is it asked for too much if the
> > user has to add a ::float8 to the number?
> 
> Am I being dense here?  Can there really be a significant performance
> hit in the parsing of a query?  Let's say that it takes a millisecond
> extra to do the right thing with a number.  Does it matter?  How many
> queries per second can we expect to process anyway?

I don't know of standard ways to read in 64-bit integers.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us