Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > I just tested from a standalone backend: > backend> select pow(10::numeric, 131071) + 1 > and got 4095 zeros and no trailing '1' (wrong), so it isn't psql, it > must be something in the backend.
If the backend is truncating the result length, I don't see why psql would decide it needs 12K dashes for the header. There's something awfully fishy going on in your machine. Try something like regression=# select length((pow(10::numeric, 131071))::text); length -------- 131089 (1 row) If that gives the right answer then the NUMERIC code is off the hook, and what you've got is a strange limitation on output column length. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend