Oracle FLOAT equivalent in Redshift

Question

I'm moving my data from Oracle to Redshift.

What is the best option for Oracle FLOAT data type in Redshift.

The column data type that I have is FLOAT(64).

Answer 1

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_Supported_data_types.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_Numeric_types201.html

FLOAT is 8 bytes, which is 64 bits...