Vincenzo Romano escribió: > Hi all. > I'd like to know whether there is any "real world" evaluation (aka test) on > performances of the NUMERIC data type when compared to FLOAT8 and FLOAT4. > The documentation simply says that the former is "much slower" than the latter > ones.
It is. But why do you care? You either have the correctness that NUMERIC gives, or you don't. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
