On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> But I wonder if we could just declare that that's not what the scale typmod
> does. That it's just a maximum scale but it's perfectly valid for NUMERIC
> data with lower scales to be stored in a column than the typmod says. In a
> way the current behaviour is like bpchar but it would be nice if it was more
> like varchar
Sure, but the point is that 5.0000 is not the same as 5.000 today. If
you start whacking this around you'll be changing that behavior, I
think.
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