Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.

Tory M Blue wrote:
> I have a column that is a bigint that needs to store integers up to 19
> digits long. For the most part this works but we sometimes have
> numbers that are greater than 9223372036854775807.
> ...
> I was thinking of changing this to a real or double precision field,
> but read in the docs that the value stored is not always the value
> inserted...

They're actually less precise than the same size of integer. Real/double datatypes trade more range for less precision in the same number of bytes.

> My number will always be 19 digits long and always an integer.
> I looked into the numeric data type, but the docs say that it can be slow.

If it's *always* going to be 19 digits, couldn't you make it a text or char field? You didn't say if this is really a number. Do you do arithmetic with it? Sort it numerically? Or is it just a long identifier that happens to only used digits?

Craig James