Re: Integer input functions for date and timestamp

Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of vie oct 22 17:13:31 -0300 2010:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 22 16:54:01 -0300 2010:
> 
> > Ooh, I like it.  A related personal pet peeve of mine: AFAIK the
> > easiest way to convert from an integer number of seconds to an
> > interval representing that many seconds is:
> > 
> > (the_int || ' s')::interval
> 
> Why do you go through text and concatenation?  I advocate this approach:
>     the_int * interval '1 second'

A quick tests with pgbench custom scripts says that it's about 10%
faster.

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