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From Vibhor Kumar
Subject Re: Converting between varchar and float when updating
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Msg-id 3145F8BC-C428-475F-9EC1-B04B2E086DCC@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Converting between varchar and float when updating  (Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>)
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On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:

> NB:  I am sure that OP is not sure :-) And since foo.bar is varchar,
> it is better to use numeric instead of float :-)


Now, this make to ask question, why numeric? How its better than float?

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Vibhor Kumar
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
vibhor.kumar@enterprisedb.com
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