Re: Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0)

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Yusuf W(dot)" <unicef2k(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0)
Date: 2003-09-28 03:06:42
Message-ID: 200309272006.42462.josh@agliodbs.com
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Yusuf,

> Does anyone know where I could get some documentation
> on how the int and decimal are implemented so I could
> prove to him that ints are better? Can people suggest
> good points to make in order to prove it?

RTFM:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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