Re: Reduce palloc's in numeric operations.

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> Hello, I will propose reduce palloc's in numeric operations.
>
> The numeric operations are slow by nature, but usually it is not
> a problem for on-disk operations. Altough the slowdown is
> enhanced on on-memory operations.
>
> I inspcted them and found some very short term pallocs. These
> palloc's are used for temporary storage for digits of unpaked
> numerics.

This looks like a neat little patch.  Some feedback has been provided by
Heikki (thanks!) and since we're still waiting for an updated version, I
have marked this Returned with Feedback for the time being.  Please make
sure to address the remaining issues and submit to the next commitfest.
Thanks.

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