Re: Non-decimal integer literals

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 21:35, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> My code follows the style used for parsing the decimal integers.
> Keeping that consistent is valuable I think. I think the proposed
> change makes the code significantly harder to understand. Also, what
> you are suggesting here would amount to an attempt to make parsing
> hexadecimal integers even faster than parsing decimal integers. Is that
> useful?

Isn't it being faster one of the major use cases for this feature? I
remember many years ago and several jobs ago when working with SQL
Server being able to speed up importing data using hexadecimal
DATETIMEs. I can't think why else you might want to represent a
DATETIME as a hexstring, so I assumed this was a large part of the use
case for INTs in PostgreSQL. Are you telling me that better
performance is not something anyone will want out of this feature?

David