Re: [HACKERS] More Hashing questions

2004-05-06 Thread Greg Stark
"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, thoug

Re: [HACKERS] More Hashing questions

2004-05-06 Thread Jim C. Nasby
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 wo