Ever so slightly faster intervals in postgres

When working with dates in postgres I often construct an interval like so:

> select (2 || ' days')::interval;
2 days

Which is fine! But there's an alternative that's ever so slightly faster.

> select 2 * '1 day'::interval;
2 days

The time difference can be seen over large quantities of data, like 10 million.

> select (x || ' days')::interval from generate_series(1, 10000000) as x;
...
Time: 10437.314 ms

 > select x * '1 days'::interval from generate_series(1, 10000000) as x;
...
Time: 7831.568 ms

Microbenchmarking in action! Remember, take all microbenchmarks with a grain of salt.