Andrei Lepikhov: Why is PostgreSQL's Numeric Type so Slow?

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Planet PostgreSQL at 08 Oct, 11:53 UTC

The numeric type has existed in Postgres for more than 25 years. Over that time, it has undergone many optimisations and refinements. And yet operations on this type - aggregation in particular - still look rather inefficient.Since the PostgreSQL community always fixes problems with more or less…

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• T2Andrei Lepikhov: Why is PostgreSQL's Numeric Type so Slow?Planet PostgreSQL08 Oct, 11:53