> The performance of our numeric vs Oracle's was a common complaint when > I was at EnterpriseDB (in 2007). > > Perhaps numeric's performance could be greatly improved in cases where > the precision is low enough to map to an int/bigint. That would get us > closer to eliminating money as well as give other uses a big win. Of > course, how to do that and not break pg_upgrade is a huge question...
Just out of curiosity, why is Oracle's NUMBER (I assume you are talking about this) so fast? Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
