On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 22:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > Quotes and casting together are not necessary.
>
> Check.
>
> > I'd choose "lid = 457::int2" since it's telling PG what the datatype
> > is, whereas with lid = '457', PG must figure it out.
>
> I'd lean to the quotes, actually, since that way your application's
> code isn't so dependent on the particular datatypes in the table.
> I doubt there's any performance advantage to writing the cast, if
> that's what you were thinking ...
Well, yes, that's what I was thinking: minimize the code path that
the parser must take.
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