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From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject numeric/decimal docs bug?
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Msg-id 20020302231423W.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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Responses Re: numeric/decimal docs bug?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: numeric/decimal docs bug?  (Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>)
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In datatype.sgml:
    The type numeric can store numbers of practically    unlimited size and precision,...

I think this is simply wrong since the current implementation of
numeric and decimal data types limit the precision up to 1000.

#define NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION        1000

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Tatsuo Ishii

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