On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've never been very happy with the performance of numeric, so I guess >> I'm a bit more optimistic about the chances of doing better. Aside >> from any computational optimizations, the fact that the datatype could >> be pass-by-value rather than a varlena might speed things up quite a >> bit in some cases. > > What cases do you have in mind?
I don't have a specific use case in mind. However, datumCopy() is sure to be a lot faster when typByVal is true, and see also the documentation changes in commit 8472bf7a73487b0535c95e299773b882f7523463. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
