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> Bruce Momjian said:
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> > The only fix for this would be to read all integers in as 64-bit
> > integers, then do the conversion, but that could be a performance
> > problem.
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> Michael Meskes answered:
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> > I agree. And performance is important. I think explicit type
> > conversion is what we should do. Or is it asked for too much if the
> > user has to add a ::float8 to the number?
>
> Am I being dense here? Can there really be a significant performance
> hit in the parsing of a query? Let's say that it takes a millisecond
> extra to do the right thing with a number. Does it matter? How many
> queries per second can we expect to process anyway?
I don't know of standard ways to read in 64-bit integers.
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Bruce Momjian
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