On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 02:13:49PM -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
> 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.
Range and the base, both being important.
Cheers,
mark
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