On 01/27/2011 08:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not if you can persuade the client-side code to output integers as
> integers. "numeric" type is orders of magnitude slower than integers.
I sadly have to vouch for this. My company converted an old Oracle app
and they changed all their primary keys (and foreign keys, and random
larger int fields) to NUMERIC(19)'s. I've convinced them all new stuff
should be BIGINT if they need that level of coverage, but the damage is
already done.
I'm not sure about orders of magnitude on the storage/index side, but my
tests gave us a 10% boost if just the keys are switched over to INT or
BIGINT.
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