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

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3
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Msg-id 1182179941.6855.191.camel@silverbirch.site
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In response to Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:56 +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > The objections to applying this patch originally were:
> > 2. it would restrict number of digits to 508 and there are allegedly
> > some people that want to store > 508 digits.
> >   
> If 508 digits are not enough, are1000 digits be sufficient? Both limits
> appear quite arbitrary to me.

Thats the current limit; I agree, but I didn't choose it. IIRC if you
don't specify a limit then you can have arbitrarily long numbers.

--  Simon Riggs              EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com




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