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From Vincenzo Romano
Subject Re: Numeric performances
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Msg-id 200705312125.27266.vincenzo.romano@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Numeric performances  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Numeric performances  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:42:20 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> It is.  But why do you care?  You either have the correctness that
> NUMERIC gives, or you don't.

Because FLOAT8 can be precise enough for some application and not
enough for other ones.

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Vincenzo Romano
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For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]

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