Re: Non-decimal integer literals

On 24.11.22 10:13, David Rowley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 21:35, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> My code follows the style used for parsing the decimal integers.
>> Keeping that consistent is valuable I think.  I think the proposed
>> change makes the code significantly harder to understand.  Also, what
>> you are suggesting here would amount to an attempt to make parsing
>> hexadecimal integers even faster than parsing decimal integers.  Is that
>> useful?
> 
> Isn't it being faster one of the major use cases for this feature?

Never thought about it that way.

> I
> remember many years ago and several jobs ago when working with SQL
> Server being able to speed up importing data using hexadecimal
> DATETIMEs. I can't think why else you might want to represent a
> DATETIME as a hexstring, so I assumed this was a large part of the use
> case for INTs in PostgreSQL. Are you telling me that better
> performance is not something anyone will want out of this feature?

This isn't about datetimes but about integers.