Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data
Date: 2005-11-03 16:22:42
Message-ID: 1131034962.8300.1968.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:03 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> I don't believe the above is safe to say, yet. AFAICS, this has been
> discussed only on hackers (and patches) in this discussion, whereas this
> sort of change should probably be brought up on general as well to get a
> greater understanding of whether there are people who care. I expect that
> there won't be, but given that I'm still not sure what the plan to support
> applications upward is for this change, I think it's probably a good idea
> to query a larger segment of the population.

Fairly spoken, I believe.

I would suggest that I work just a little more with Tom et al to make
sure we have a plan that can fly. If so, I will query GENERAL as you
suggest.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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