From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:47:58 -0300
Message-ID: <20100204184758.GF5698@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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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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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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