Re: Padding on 64-bit

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Padding on 64-bit
Date: 2007-05-30 20:02:47
Message-ID: 200705302002.l4UK2lB06260@momjian.us
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I think that's backwards. We *are* passing them by reference, we should
> be considering passing them by value.

Thanks, fixed.

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>
> //Magnus
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by reference on 64-bit
> > platforms
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Neil Conway wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-29-05 at 16:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> (I imagine someday we'll get around to allowing int8 to be pass-by-value
> >>> on 64-bit platforms.)
> >> This could really be a significant performance win: I'm planning to take
> >> a look at doing it for 8.4.
> >>
> >> -Neil
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> >> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> >> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> >> match
> >

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