Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> writes:
> On 2025-03-07 04:05 +0100, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the idea of the original coding was to keep those values in
>> registers in the inner loop rather than re-fetching them each time.
> Could be. But the main reason was to hold the output column type as the
> inner loop repurposed att for the input column.
[ shrug... ] "git blame" traces this code to my commit 12b1b5d83
of 2004-12-11. I admit that my memory might be faulty 20 years later,
but that's my impression of what I was thinking.
regards, tom lane