Sim Zacks <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The manual doesn't say exactly how much storage a numeric type uses, but > it seems to me that it is taking up about 12 bytes per field. Does this > make any sense? Yeah, that would be the minimum size of a nonzero numeric value in 8.2. (More recent versions can pack them a bit tighter in many cases.) You might consider whether you can put all those numeric fields into an array. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general