From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: numeric/decimal docs bug? |
Date: | 2002-04-13 00:13:45 |
Message-ID: | 200204130013.g3D0Dj400379@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I think I made my point clear enough, that I consider calling
> > these functions just once is plain sloppy. But that's just
> > my opinion. What do others think?
>
> I don't have a problem with the current length of the numeric test.
> The original form of it (now shoved over to bigtests) did seem
> excessively slow to me ... but I can live with this one.
>
> I do agree that someone ought to reimplement numeric using base10k
> arithmetic ... but it's not bugging me so much that I'm likely
> to get around to it anytime soon myself ...
>
> Bruce, why is there no TODO item for that project?
Not sure. I was aware of it for a while. Added:
* Change NUMERIC data type to use base 10,000 internally
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