Re: Numeric documentation paragraph reverse argument order.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 01:54:26PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/datatype-numeric.html
> Description:
>
> This is not a correction, but a clarification. In the paragraph describing
> the Numeric type,
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL
> the description of the arguments is reversed from the order of the
> arguments, i.e. scale before numeric, while the argument is numeric before
> scale. My suggestion is to change the following paragraph:
>
> > We use the following terms below: The scale of a numeric is the count of
> decimal digits in the fractional part, to the right of the decimal point.
> The precision of a numeric is the total count of significant digits in the
> whole number, that is, the number of digits to both sides of the decimal
> point. So the number 23.5141 has a precision of 6 and a scale of 4. Integers
> can be considered to have a scale of zero.
>
> to:
>
> > We use the following terms below: The precision of a numeric is the total
> count of significant digits in the whole number, that is, the number of
> digits to both sides of the decimal point. The scale of a numeric is the
> count of decimal digits in the fractional part, to the right of the decimal
> point. So the number 23.5141 has a precision of 6 and a scale of 4. Integers
> can be considered to have a scale of zero.
>
> That way the order in the paragraph (precision, scale), matches the argument
> order `NUMERIC(precision, scale)`

Now that is an excellent suggestion. Change applied back through 9.3.
Thanks.

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