On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, never thought of that approach.
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