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.
Tag: numeric
Waiting for 9.5 – Add generate_series(numeric, numeric).
On 11th of November, Fujii Masao committed patch:
Add generate_series(numeric, numeric). Платон Малюгин Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Ali Akbar and Marti Raudsepp
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