| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Franco Bruno Borghesi <franco(at)akyasociados(dot)com(dot)ar> |
| Cc: | "Yusuf W(dot)" <unicef2k(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0) |
| Date: | 2003-09-29 17:19:33 |
| Message-ID: | 200309291019.33153.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Franco,
> Wouldn't it be the most portable solution to work with a domain?
> CREATE DOMAIN BIG_NUMBER AS BIGINT;
>
> If I use BIG_NUMBER everywhere I need it in my database, porting it to
> other database products should be easy... any SQL 92 compliant dbms
> should support domains.
This is a good idea, on general principles. Abstracted design is a good
thing.
Regrettably, though, a lot of commercial databases do not support DOMAIN.
You'll need to check which databases you are thinking of porting to first.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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