Re: [HACKERS] regression bigtest needs very long time

>     needs  4  cycles instead of 10 (because the decimal point has
>     the same meaning in base  10000  the  last  value  is  stored
>     internally  as  short  ints 1, 2030, 1234, 5000). This is the
>     worst case and it still saved 60% of the innermost cycles!

Interesting.  How do other Db's do it internally?  Anyone know?

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