Re: Column information

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Column information
Date: 2017-05-04 14:00:05
Message-ID: 6357.1493906405@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Yes, so for the Radix 2 only 0 and 1 should be used, right?
> And so the value should be 100000 and not 32.

No, certainly not. The radix column says what the units of measurement
are, not that the values in the precision column aren't decimal. So radix
2 indicates that precision 32 means "32 bits", not "32 decimal digits".

regards, tom lane

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