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