On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Thomas Munro > <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> 1. They are fixed size, and DECFLOAT(9) [= 32 bit] and DECFLOAT(17) >> [= 64 bit] could in theory be passed by value. Of course we don't >> have a way to make those pass-by-value and yet pass DECFLOAT(34) [= >> 128 bit] by reference! That is where I got stuck last time I was >> interested in this subject, because that seems like the place where we >> would stand to gain a bunch of performance, and yet the limited >> technical factors seems to be very well baked into Postgres. > > I feel like these would logically just be different types, like int4 > and int8 are. We don't have integer(9) and integer(18).
Hmm. Perhaps format_type.c could render decfloat16 as decfloat(16) and decfloat34 as decfloat(34), and gram.y could have a production that selects the right one when you write DECFLOAT(x) and rejects values of x other than 16 and 34. -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
