On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:05, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 05:21 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
> > NUMBER is Oracle's version of NUMERIC - Oracle will use both but
> > probably only Oracle will use NUMBER.
>
> Really? I thought Oracle's NUMBER ~ PostgreSQL's (BIG)INT?
Not sure. It let me assign a precision to it, so I figured it wasn't
int based. In fact, it accepts precision up to 38, just like numeric,
and it accepts non-decimal portions, i.e.:
number(20,4);
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