Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3
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Msg-id 6294.1182182053@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> In any case, no capability is lost, unlike the original proposal; and
>> this would be much less invasive than the original patch since there's
>> no need to play tricks with the content of the digit array.

> I wonder if the currently waiting patch isn't Good Enough for
> 999.9999999999999999 % of use cases, and "all" others can use numeric
> instead of numeric(1000,800) or so.

Apparently you misunderstand that patch: it takes capability away from
unconstrained numeric too.
        regards, tom lane


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