From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com |
Cc: | jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] numeric & decimal |
Date: | 1999-04-27 16:21:55 |
Message-ID: | 199904271621.MAA03220@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> 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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