| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3 |
| Date: | 2007-06-18 15:54:13 |
| Message-ID: | 6294.1182182053@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> In any case, no capability is lost, unlike the original proposal; and
>> this would be much less invasive than the original patch since there's
>> no need to play tricks with the content of the digit array.
> I wonder if the currently waiting patch isn't Good Enough for
> 999.9999999999999999 % of use cases, and "all" others can use numeric
> instead of numeric(1000,800) or so.
Apparently you misunderstand that patch: it takes capability away from
unconstrained numeric too.
regards, tom lane
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