On 28 January 2016 at 08:41, Matt <bsg075@gmail.com> wrote:
> Moving from NUMERIC to FLOAT(8) did indeed lower query times by about 20%.
>
> I will try fixeddecimal and agg() as time permits.
That's surprisingly little gain. Please note that you'll not gain any
further improvements from the fixeddecimal type than you won't have
already gotten from float8. My tests showed that it's very slightly
slower than float8, which is possibly due to float8 addition not
having overflow checks.
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