Re: [HACKERS] numeric & decimal

> For some reason (dunno why) the parser ignores the precision
> for DECIMAL. atttypmod is set hardcoded to -1. So the above
> is identical to a
>
> CREATE TABLE test (n numeric(10,3), d decimal);
>
> I'll test what happens if I enable it in gram.y and if it
> doesn't break any regression commit the changes.

In the old days, we couldn't handle precision, so we ignored it.

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