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From Carlos Mennens
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> My guess is it is listed as numeric which is equivalent to decimal:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/datatype-numeric.html

Thanks. I just for some reason can't see or understand the difference
between 'decimal' & 'numeric'. Why have two data types for the same
values? Am I missing something?

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