On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:43 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > The downside is that passing strings up to the application may have > distinctly worse performance characteristics than passing a number.
Yes, that is a good point. I tried to clarify this in the doc. I think this would fall under the optional type conversion convenience functions. As long as it's explicit that the conversion is happening, I think it's OK. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers