On 2006-09-15, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
> Ofcorse, if this is a faster numeric type,
Presumably the same speed as bigint, which is to say that while it is
faster than numeric for calculation, it is (much) slower for input/output.
(The difference in speed between bigint output and numeric output is
measured in multiples, not in percentages.)
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