Mark Dilger wrote:
Wouldn't a 4-byte numeric be a "float4" and an 8-byte numeric be a "float8". I'm not sure I see the difference.
Nevermind. I don't normally think about numeric as anything other than an arbitrarily large floating point type. But it does differ in that you can specify the range you want it to cover.
mark
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