On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 15:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>> Euler proposed one more patch upthread, which replaces pg_size_pretty(bigint)
>> with pg_size_pretty(numeric) so that pg_size_pretty(pg_xlog_location_diff())
>> succeeds. It's also worth committing this patch?
>
> Why would it be useful to use pg_size_pretty on xlog locations?
> -1 because of the large expense of bigint->numeric->whatever conversion
> that would be added to existing uses.
Given the expense, perhaps we need to different (overloaded) functions instead?
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