Storage space, RAM for NUMERIC

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Storage space, RAM for NUMERIC
Date: 2003-11-13 19:36:05
Message-ID: 200311131136.05066.josh@agliodbs.com
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Folks,

How would I calculate storage space/required ram on a 50-digit NUMERIC?

And the docs state that NUMERIC is slow. Is this just slow for calculations
(due to the conversion to float & back) or slow for index lookups as well?

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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