On 2021-12-07 22:41:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think what you are looking for is NUMERIC. (The type name NUMBER
> is an Oracle-ism, I believe. I'm not sure how closely that corresponds
> to our NUMERIC.)
Not very. Oracle NUMBER is a decimal floating point number with a 38
digit mantissa stored in a variable length format.
hp
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