On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 17:22, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.)
Thanks, just trying to understand what that was for. -- Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
