> 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?
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Tatsuo Ishii
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