On 20 December 2011 10:27, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > Doing it in numeric should be perfectly fine. The only real reason to > pick int8 over in this context would be performance, but it's not like > this is something that's going to be called in really performance > critical paths...
FYI, my group commit patch has a little macro, in the spirit of XLByteAdvance, to get the delta between two LSNs in bytes as an uint64. -- Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
