On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:10:47PM -0800, Greg Stark wrote: > As far as i know all of these actually work with doubles > though, so you'll lose precision.
IEEE 754 floating point numbers (i.e. float8 or "double precision" in PG) are defined to have a 52 bit significand and hence can store integer values up to 2^52 without loss of precision. How good PG is numerically I'm not sure, but you should be able to get pretty close to this range. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
