Re: [HACKERS] Decimal64 and Decimal128

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've never been very happy with the performance of numeric, so I guess
>> I'm a bit more optimistic about the chances of doing better.  Aside
>> from any computational optimizations, the fact that the datatype could
>> be pass-by-value rather than a varlena might speed things up quite a
>> bit in some cases.
>
> What cases do you have in mind?

I don't have a specific use case in mind.  However, datumCopy() is
sure to be a lot faster when typByVal is true, and see also the
documentation changes in commit
8472bf7a73487b0535c95e299773b882f7523463.

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