"Mark Woodward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. Performance. Doing this would require widening Datum to 64 bits, >> which is a system-wide performance hit on 32-bit machines.
> Do you really think it would make a measurable difference, more so than > your proposed solution? (I'm skeptical it would be measurable at all) I'm too lazy to run an experiment, but I believe it would. Datum is involved in almost every function-call API in the backend. In particular this means that it would affect performance-critical code paths. Creation of tables and such isn't performance-critical in most applications, so a few percent overhead there doesn't bother me. A few percent across the board is another story. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster