Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of vie oct 22 17:13:31 -0300 2010:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 22 16:54:01 -0300 2010:
>
> > Ooh, I like it. A related personal pet peeve of mine: AFAIK the
> > easiest way to convert from an integer number of seconds to an
> > interval representing that many seconds is:
> >
> > (the_int || ' s')::interval
>
> Why do you go through text and concatenation? I advocate this approach:
> the_int * interval '1 second'
A quick tests with pgbench custom scripts says that it's about 10%
faster.
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