Re: New version of money type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: New version of money type
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Msg-id 20060928131213.bd641ff6.darcy@druid.net
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In response to Re: New version of money type  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: New version of money type  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Re: New version of money type  ("Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com>)
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:44:24 -0400
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure about 'money' in general but these claims of great
> performance improvments over numeric just don't fly so easily with me.
> numeric isn't all *that* much slower than regular old integer in the
> tests that I've done.

Numeric has been shown to be as good or better than money in I/O
operations.  Where money shines is in internal calculations.

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