Re: Decimal64 and Decimal128

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Feng Tian <ftian(at)vitessedata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Decimal64 and Decimal128
Date: 2017-06-19 17:10:03
Message-ID: CAH2-WznkjNA0jO_Ac=to2tvGxSS9BmDQZpotXOUs5z9Py28RGQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)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?

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Peter Geoghegan

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