| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: benchmarking the query planner |
| Date: | 2008-12-11 22:45:47 |
| Message-ID: | 12536.1229035547@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> I would like it even more if there was a data type specific default.
> Currently we have a special case for boolean, but that's it.
No, we don't (or if we do I'd be interested to know where). I don't see
much value in a data-type-dependent default anyway --- would you make
different defaults for int4, int8, and float8, and on what grounds?
The actual data contents of three such columns could easily be exactly
equivalent.
regards, tom lane
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