Re: numeric hierarchy again (was Re: floor function in 7.3b2) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Do we know that defaulting floating constants will not be a performance
> > hit?
> 
> Uh ... what's your concern exactly?  The datatype coercion (if any) will
> happen once at parse time, not at runtime.

Yes, I realize it is during parsing.  I was just wondering if making
constants coming in from the parser NUMERIC is a performance hit?  I see
in gram.y that FCONST comes in as a Float so I don't even see were we
make it NUMERIC.

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