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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/datatype-numeric.html
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When  I try to run 
`insert into employees (r_id) values (3.919192199);`
where r_id is of type real, I see it stores as 3.9191923 and not 6. 
Am I understanding anything wrong ? isn't the range specified is 6 digits
precision?

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