Depending on how your version of PG was built, there will probably be
hardly any difference in speed as far as the CPU is concerned as the
FPU should be happy with both, and I think MMX/MMX2/SSE/SSE2/3dNow!
have some relevant optimisations for that sort of thing as well. You
will be transfe
Hi
I am wrting a application that involves a lot of floating point number
crunching.
My data is stored in tables of the form:
TABLE data (
date_id INT,
value FLOAT)
I have just noticed in the documention that the FLOAT data type is stored
in 8 bytes (ie 64 bits) as opposed to the REAL data typ
