Now, I've got to convince my project's software architech, that a bigint would be better than a decimal.
Does anyone know where I could get some documentation on how the int and decimal are implemented so I could prove to him that ints are better? Can people suggest good points to make in order to prove it? Thanks in advance. --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Yusuf W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For the application that I'm working on, we want > to > > use data types that are database independent. > (most > > databases has decimal, but not big int). > > Most databases have bigint, I think. > > > Anyhow, we are planning on using decimal(19,0) for > our > > primary keys instead of a big int, would there be > a > > performance difference in using a bigint over > using decimals? > > You'll be taking a very large performance hit, for > very little benefit > that I can see. How hard could it be to change the > column declarations > if you ever move to a database without bigint? > There's not normally > much need for apps to be explicitly aware of the > column type names. > > regards, tom lane __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
