Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type
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Msg-id m0zxwSr-000EBRC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On my Linux box/i586/libc5, postgresql 6.4.2:
>
> test=> create table n1 (n numeric(10,5), d decimal(10,5));
> ERROR:  NUMERIC precision 10 must be 9
> test=>
>
> Something weird ! I compiled postgres 6.4.2 after applying Jan's feature
> patch and configure --enable-locale

    Not  weird.  The  new  NUMERIC  datatype (arbitrary precision
    numeric format) isn't part of the v6.4 tree and will not  be.

    It's  only  in the current development tree which will become
    v6.5.


Jan

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