Re: Problem with example numeric value - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Fri, 2026-02-06 at 10:20 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> In the page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html it
> is said that NUMERIC(2, -3) will round values to the nearest thousand and
> can store values between -99000 and 99000. However, the range of values that
> are allowed are -99499 to 99499 inclusive.

  test=> CREATE TABLE t (n NUMERIC(2, -3));
  CREATE TABLE
  test=> INSERT INTO t VALUES (99499);
  INSERT 0 1
  test=> TABLE t;
     n
  -------
   99000
  (1 row)

It will *store* 99000, even if you *insert* 99499.
I'd say that the documentation is correct.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe