How much slower are numerics? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From CSN
Subject How much slower are numerics?
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Msg-id 20051021223016.95947.qmail@web52907.mail.yahoo.com
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Responses Re: How much slower are numerics?  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Another thing I've always wondered about ;), as I use
numerics far more than floats. From the docs:

"However, arithmetic on numeric values is very slow
compared to the integer types, or to the
floating-point types"

How much slower are numerics? And why (I guess it has
to do with potentially different sizes)?

Thanks,
CSN



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