Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508
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Msg-id 8796.1133893215@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508  ("John D. Burger" <john@mitre.org>)
Responses Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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"John D. Burger" <john@mitre.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm ... between that, the possible crypto connection, and John's 
>> personal testimony

> Just to be clear, this John has yet to use NUMERIC for any 
> calculations, let alone in that range.

My mistake, got confused as to who had said what.

The point remains though: in discussing this proposed patch, we were
assuming that 10^508 would still be far beyond what people actually
needed.  Even one or two reports from the list membership of actual
use of larger values casts a pretty big shadow on that assumption.
        regards, tom lane


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