Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster"

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster"
Date: 2010-09-02 22:56:42
Message-ID: 1283468202.3791.315.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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> 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

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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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