Re: [HACKERS] Data type removal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mattias Kregert
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Data type removal
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Msg-id 3519331E.37B93A50@algonet.se
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Data type removal  (dg@illustra.com (David Gould))
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Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
>
> With the amount of time being spent in discussion, _still without any
> quantitative estimates for performance improvement_, it seems like
> someone should do some measurements. Even without them though it is
> pretty clear that it won't benefit a large database, since the fraction
> of time spent constructing a query will be small compared to the time it
> takes to traverse the tables in the query.

I don't think the main reason for moving things out from the
core would be performance, but for making it easier to manage
extensions.

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