Re: Slow UPADTE, compared to INSERT

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:23:43PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:

> Better IMHO would be: "UPDATE table1 SET status = %s WHERE recid = %s::int8"

Thanks for the hint!

> unexpectedly in this scenario. The reason is that the literal number is 
> treated as int4, whereas quoted it is marked as type unknown. Unkown gets 
> cast to int8, whereas int4 gets left as-is.

This explains a lot. Thanks!
BTW, is this mentioned somewhere in PostgreSQL documentation? I can't
remember anything on this subject. Maybe i just somehow skipped it...

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Ivar