Vincenzo Romano escribió:
> Hi all.
> I'd like to know whether there is any "real world" evaluation (aka test) on
> performances of the NUMERIC data type when compared to FLOAT8 and FLOAT4.
> The documentation simply says that the former is "much slower" than the latter
> ones.
It is. But why do you care? You either have the correctness that
NUMERIC gives, or you don't.
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