On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:56 +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > The objections to applying this patch originally were: > > 2. it would restrict number of digits to 508 and there are allegedly > > some people that want to store > 508 digits. > > > If 508 digits are not enough, are1000 digits be sufficient? Both limits > appear quite arbitrary to me.
Thats the current limit; I agree, but I didn't choose it. IIRC if you don't specify a limit then you can have arbitrarily long numbers. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
