On 2006-09-15, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > Ofcorse, if this is a faster numeric type,
Presumably the same speed as bigint, which is to say that while it is faster than numeric for calculation, it is (much) slower for input/output. (The difference in speed between bigint output and numeric output is measured in multiples, not in percentages.) -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
