Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it
Date: 2013-06-12 14:53:07
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJzrYTqFQCaZR4XCeBYLAaZTRfmfs6HfcJEKP+GvrkUFw@mail.gmail.com
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On 12 June 2013 01:35, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> On the whole, I think the effort would be a lot more usefully spent on
> trying to make the existing NUMERIC support go faster.

Did you have a specific idea in mind? Or an area of investigation?

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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