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From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Decimal vs. Bigint memory usage
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In response to Re: Decimal vs. Bigint memory usage  (Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>)
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On 29/09/2011 9:13 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:


>> How does decimal store the number internally,

Numeric is stored as binary-coded decimal. This isn't fast.

I'd say using a bigint is a no-brainer unless you think there's a chance
you might exceed the maximum size for a 64-bit integer.

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Craig Ringer

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