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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0)
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Msg-id 200309272006.42462.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0)  ("Yusuf W." <unicef2k@yahoo.com>)
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Yusuf,

> 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?

RTFM:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
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