2009/8/3 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Uh, no, we had better support more. The actual limit of the current > numeric format is 1e+131072. >
Given your comment above I'm thinking it reasonable to use an int32 to store the exponent -- will that be safe? That would allow for a maximum of 10 exponent digits. As an aside, I note that int4out() hardcodes the maximum number of digits rather than exposing a constant (c.f. MAXINT8LEN in int8.c). I'm considering adding MAXINT2LEN and MAXINT4LEN to int.c in passing. Excessive tinkering, or worthy improvement? Cheers, BJ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
