David B wrote:
> We have got used to the problem that queries of the format:
>
> select *
> from customer
> where cust_id = '123' are much much faster than
>
> select *
> from customer
> where cust_id = 123
>
> (where cust_id is defined as bigint).
>
> a. Why is this.
Because in the second case, the 123 gets resolved too early to type
integer, which is not index compatible with type bigint.
> b. Will moving to v7.4 change this so we can avoid the whole '123'
> casting thing.
No, but 7.5 will be able to handle it.
