On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:36:14AM +0000, Gianni Ciolli wrote:
> maybe we should change the "1000 digits" here:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL
>
> because ISTM that up to 2^17 digits are supported (which makes more
> sense than 1000).
Agreed. The documentation is suggestive of this limit:
# CREATE TABLE n (c numeric(1001,0));
ERROR: NUMERIC precision 1001 must be between 1 and 1000
LINE 1: CREATE TABLE n (c numeric(1001,0));
However, that's indeed just a limit of the numeric typmod representation, not
the data type itself. An unqualified "numeric" column hits no such limit.
