On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The main thing I'm wondering is how/if to handle backward compatibility with > the existing NUMERIC and its DECIMAL alias
If it were 100% functionally equivalent you could just hide the implementation internally. Have a bit that indicates which representation was stored and call the right function depending. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers