Tom Lane wrote:
But the cmpb instruction in the 8.0 version of TAS would have done that, and I think we've already established that the cmpb is a loss on most machines (except maybe single-physical-CPU Xeons).
Note that this was a regular Pentium 4 system, not a Xeon. Best Regards, Michael Paesold ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster