Re: Fast BigDecimal

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Kris Jurka wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> Here's another patch I put together while trying to improve performance for
>> the customer that bumped into the repeated Describe thing yesterday. It
>> speeds up ResultSet.getBigDecimal() with the same fastpath implementation
>> we have for getInt and getLong.
>
> To maintain the same behavior as the current code, you need to handle the
> period more carefully. You must ensure that there is only one and that
> there's at least one other number. Consider the case of SELECT '.' OR SELECT
> '1.......'.
>

For some reason I thought this would be tricky. We just need to track the
total number for periods seen and error out if > 1 or equal to the total
number of characters. I've done that and committed it.

Kris Jurka