Re: Reducing data type space usage

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 02:13:49PM -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
> Mark Dilger wrote:
> >Wouldn't a 4-byte numeric be a "float4" and an 8-byte numeric be a 
> >"float8".  I'm not sure I see the difference.
> Nevermind.  I don't normally think about numeric as anything other than 
> an arbitrarily large floating point type.  But it does differ in that 
> you can specify the range you want it to cover.

Range and the base, both being important.

Cheers,
mark

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