If you do this I suggest supporting bigint as well.
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:45:37PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
Regarding inter-data-type hash joins, would it make sense to make float
datatypes to hash to the same value as integral data types for integral
values?
Conveniently this would
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you do this I suggest supporting bigint as well.
Well I'm not about to actually do the inter-data-type hash joins. I was just
asking if the hash functions for floats should be adjusted to guarantee this
property. bigints already guarantee it, though I
Regarding inter-data-type hash joins, would it make sense to make float
datatypes to hash to the same value as integral data types for integral
values?
Conveniently this would cover the existing special case of -0 and +0 hashing
to the same value. Something like this?
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