On 21.2.2015 01:45, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Tomas Vondra
> wrote:
>> Isn't this patch about adding abbreviated keys for Numeric data type?
>> That's how I understood it, and looking into numeric_sortsup.patch seems
>> to confirm that.
>>
>> There's another patch f
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Tomas Vondra
wrote:
> Isn't this patch about adding abbreviated keys for Numeric data type?
> That's how I understood it, and looking into numeric_sortsup.patch seems
> to confirm that.
>
> There's another patch for Datum, but that's a different thread.
Right...so
On 21.2.2015 01:17, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Tomas Vondra
> wrote:
>>> So you're testing both the patches (numeric + datum tuplesort) at the
>>> same time?
>>
>> No, I was just testing two similar patches separately. I.e. master vs.
>> each patch separately.
>
> W
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Tomas Vondra
wrote:
>> So you're testing both the patches (numeric + datum tuplesort) at the
>> same time?
>
> No, I was just testing two similar patches separately. I.e. master vs.
> each patch separately.
Well, you're sorting numeric here, no? Why should it matt
On 21.2.2015 00:14, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Tomas Vondra
> wrote:
>> For example with the same percentile_disc() test as in the other
>> thread:
>>
>> create table stuff as select random()::numeric as randnum from
>> generate_series(1,100);
>>
>> analyze st
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Tomas Vondra
wrote:
> For example with the same percentile_disc() test as in the other thread:
>
>create table stuff as select random()::numeric as randnum
>from generate_series(1,100);
>
>analyze stuff;
>
>select percent
Hi,
On 26.1.2015 17:43, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> Another spinoff from the abbreviation discussion. Peter Geoghegan
> suggested on IRC that numeric would benefit from abbreviation, and
> indeed it does (in some cases by a factor of about 6-7x or more, because
> numeric comparison is no speed demon).
Another spinoff from the abbreviation discussion. Peter Geoghegan
suggested on IRC that numeric would benefit from abbreviation, and
indeed it does (in some cases by a factor of about 6-7x or more, because
numeric comparison is no speed demon).
This patch abbreviates numerics to a weight+initial d
