Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.
Date: 2010-02-04 18:47:58
Message-ID: 20100204184758.GF5698@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tory M Blue escribió:

> I looked into the numeric data type, but the docs say that it can be slow.

It is slower than values that fit in a single CPU register, sure. Is it
slow enough that you can't use it? That's a different question. I'd
give it a try -- maybe it's not all that slow.

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The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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