[GENERAL] plperlu Question

2005-11-18 Thread jbduffy
Hi I have a database 'testdatabase' which is owned by a non-superuser. I want to write a 'plperlu' function, 'import()', to process and import csv files into the database. I understand that as an un-trusted language 'plperlu' functions can only be created by a superuser, so my strategy has been a

[GENERAL] Real vs Float & 32bit vs 64bit CPU Performance Question

2005-07-28 Thread jbduffy
Hi I am wrting a application that involves a lot of floating point number crunching. My data is stored in tables of the form: TABLE data ( date_id INT, value FLOAT) I have just noticed in the documention that the FLOAT data type is stored in 8 bytes (ie 64 bits) as opposed to the REAL data typ