Re: float4/float8/int64 passed by value with tsearch fixup

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: float4/float8/int64 passed by value with tsearch fixup
Date: 2008-04-21 00:28:19
Message-ID: 9738.1208737699@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> I tried to split the previous patch up to see where the tsearch regression
> comes from. So, it turned out that:
> - float4 conversion is risk free (patch #1)
> - float8 conversion is okay, too, if coupled with time[stamp[tz]] conversion
> (patch #2) but with int64 timestamps enabled, the next one is also
> needed:
> - int64 conversion (patch #3) is mostly okay but it is the one that's
> causing
> the tsearch regression

Applied with revisions --- mostly, supporting configure-time control
over whether pass-by-value is used.

regards, tom lane

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