Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: bigint integers up to 19 digits.
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Msg-id 20100204184758.GF5698@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to bigint integers up to 19 digits.  (Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>)
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Tory M Blue escribió:

> I looked into the numeric data type, but the docs say that it can be slow.

It is slower than values that fit in a single CPU register, sure.  Is it
slow enough that you can't use it?  That's a different question.  I'd
give it a try -- maybe it's not all that slow.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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