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.
This 1000 is just a restriction on the typmod of numeric.
You can still use a much higher number of digits, if you use
unconstrained numeric:
test=> create table test (n numeric);
CREATE TABLE
test=> insert into test values (10::numeric ^ 99999);
INSERT 0 1
test=> select length(n) from test; length
-------- 100017
(1 row)
Best Regards
Michael Paesold
