On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Was looking for general feedback on whether the way I've converted this
>> to use 64 bit integers for the account numbers seems appropriate, and to
>> see if there's any objection to fixing this in general given the
>> potential downsides.
>
> In the past we've rejected proposed patches for pgbench on the grounds
> that they would make results non-comparable to previous results.
Perhaps we need an option indicating whether or not the use of bigint
columns is OK.
...Robert
