On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:36:14AM +0000, Gianni Ciolli wrote: > maybe we should change the "1000 digits" here: > > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL > > because ISTM that up to 2^17 digits are supported (which makes more > sense than 1000).
Agreed. The documentation is suggestive of this limit: # CREATE TABLE n (c numeric(1001,0)); ERROR: NUMERIC precision 1001 must be between 1 and 1000 LINE 1: CREATE TABLE n (c numeric(1001,0)); However, that's indeed just a limit of the numeric typmod representation, not the data type itself. An unqualified "numeric" column hits no such limit. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
