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.
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 00:06, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Yusuf,
>
> > Does anyone know where I could get some documentation
> > on how the int and decimal are implemented so I could
> > prove to him that ints are better? Can people suggest
> > good points to make in order to prove it?
>
> RTFM:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC