From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Jochen Erwied <jochen@pgsql-performance.erwied.eu>
Cc: Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:09:29 -0300
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Jochen Erwied escribió:
> Maybe using 'numeric(19)' instead of bigint is an alternative. I actually
> don't know how these numbers are stored internally (some kind of BCD, or as
> base-100?), but IMHO they should be faster than strings, although not as
> fast as 'native' types.
base 10000 in the current implementation
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