Simon Riggs <[email protected]> writes: > This is for migration?
Yeah, compatibility with some other DBMSes that allow this.
> Or does it mean very small values now occupy less space since we store
> fewer zeros?
It won't affect space consumption at all, as NUMERIC has never stored
leading or trailing zeroes. (Modulo the fact that "zero" here means
a base-NDIGIT digit.)
regards, tom lane
