Re: Reducing data type space usage

From: Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com>
To: Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Reducing data type space usage
Date: 2006-09-16 21:13:49
Message-ID: 450C690D.2030004@markdilger.com
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Mark Dilger wrote:

> Wouldn't a 4-byte numeric be a "float4" and an 8-byte numeric be a
> "float8". I'm not sure I see the difference.

Nevermind. I don't normally think about numeric as anything other than
an arbitrarily large floating point type. But it does differ in that
you can specify the range you want it to cover.

mark

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