Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster"
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Msg-id 1283468202.3791.315.camel@jd-desktop.iso-8859-1.charter.com
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In response to Re: Correction: datatypes are not "faster"  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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> To this:
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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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