| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Event Triggers reduced, v1 |
| Date: | 2012-07-03 16:18:47 |
| Message-ID: | 9070.1341332327@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Yeah, I'm of two minds on that. I thought that it made sense to use
> integer identifiers internally for speed, but now I'm worried that the
> effort to translate back and forth between strings and integers is
> going to end up being more than any speed we might save.
We do that for nodetags in stored query/expression trees, and I've never
seen any indication that it costs enough to notice. It's definitely a
huge win for anything that changes regularly, which seems like it'll be
a pretty good description of event tags for at least the next few years.
regards, tom lane
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