numeric – select * from depesz;

How much slower are numerics?

The general knowledge is that numerics are slower than integers/float, but offer precision and ranges that are better.

While I understand what is slow, I don't really know how much slower numerics are. So let's test it.

On 11th of November, Fujii Masao committed patch:

Add generate_series(numeric, numeric).
 
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