On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:43 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> The downside is that passing strings up to the application may have
> distinctly worse performance characteristics than passing a number.
Yes, that is a good point. I tried to clarify this in the doc.
I think this would fall under the optional type conversion convenience
functions. As long as it's explicit that the conversion is happening, I
think it's OK.
Regards,Jeff Davis
