Re: Numeric numbers

From: Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it>
To: Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Олег Самойлов <olleg(at)mipt(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Numeric numbers
Date: 2017-09-02 16:11:56
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Quoting from documentation:

"without any precision or scale [you get] a column in which values of any
precision and scale can be stored, up to the implementation limit on
precision."

I suspect the cast is doing some precision limitation.

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Il 02 set 2017 17:57, "Francisco Olarte" <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com> ha
scritto:

> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Олег Самойлов <olleg(at)mipt(dot)ru> wrote:
> > Hi all. I have silly question. Look at "numeric" type. According to
> > docs it must be "up to 131072 digits before the decimal point; up to
> > 16383 digits after the decimal point". Well, lets see.
> >
> > => select 1::numeric/3;
> > ?column?
> > ------------------------
> > 0.33333333333333333333
>
> => select 1::numeric(100,90)/3;
> ?column?
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
> 0.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
> 333333333333333333333333333333
> (1 row)
>
> It's probably doing 1(integer) => double precioson => numeric(20) or
> something similar if you do not specify.
>
> Francisco Olarte.
>
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