On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:25:27PM +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:42:20 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > It is. But why do you care? You either have the correctness that
> > NUMERIC gives, or you don't.
>
> Because FLOAT8 can be precise enough for some application and not
> enough for other ones.
If you can use float, use it. There's hardware support for that,
whereas there's none for numeric...
Have a nice day,
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