Sim Zacks writes:
> The manual doesn't say exactly how much storage a numeric type uses, but
> it seems to me that it is taking up about 12 bytes per field. Does this
> make any sense?
Yeah, that would be the minimum size of a nonzero numeric value in 8.2.
(More recent versions can pack them a
select version()
"PostgreSQL 8.2.19 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Debian
4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2"
Before you jump down my throat about bad design, this is a reporting
table that is generated based on what the users want to see in their
rows and columns. (I'm basically generating a sprea
