On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:49 +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote: > I wonder if the currently waiting patch isn't Good Enough for > 999.9999999999999999 % of use cases, and "all" others can use numeric > instead of numeric(1000,800) or so. Especially since there are many > patches waiting that do need further investigation and refining.
That still has problems. Another approach would be to restrict the existing datatype NUMERIC to 508 digits, but introduce a new datatype of LONGNUM which allows arbitrary length numerics for those that *do* care. It might be more beneficial in the longer run to separate the use cases so we can further tune them (not sure how just yet...) -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
