From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster"
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:56:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1283468202.3791.315.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C802428.5000504@agliodbs.com>
References: <4C80208B.4060908@agliodbs.com>
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<4C802428.5000504@agliodbs.com>
> To this:
>
> On 32-bit operating systems, or when PostgreSQL is complied 32-bit,
On 32-bit architectures, or when PostgreSQL is compiled as 32-bit
binaries, operations using bigint may be slower than those with
---
The problem I have with words like significant is that bigint is not
noticeably slower. It is statistically slower (am I saying that right?).
Sure if you "test" it, bigint will come out slower. Real world suggests
that nobody is going to notice.
JD
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