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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [SQL] numeric question..
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In response to Re: [SQL] numeric question..  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2000-01-14, Tom Lane mentioned:

> "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> writes:
> > I tried doing them in decimal(9,2) too and well, it added them as numeric
> > anyway -- I guess that's a dead end for a while?
> 
> DECIMAL is just an alias for NUMERIC, as far as I know...

NUMERIC specifies the data type exact numeric, with the decimal precision
and scale specified by the <precision> and <scale>.
DECIMAL specifies the data type exact numeric, with the decimal scale
specified by the <scale> and the implementation-defined decimal precision
equal to or greater than the value of the specified <precision>.

Up to this day I'm wondering what exactly this means ...

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