Change on-disk representation of NUMERIC datatype so that the sign_dscale

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: f828f878e96b83cc50569305e2f2eccfde1e8181
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-09-25T22:21:55Z
Releases: 8.3.0
Change on-disk representation of NUMERIC datatype so that the sign_dscale
word comes before the weight instead of after.  This will allow future
binary-compatible extension of the representation to support compact formats,
as discussed on pgsql-hackers around 2007/06/18.  The reason to do it now is
that we've already pretty well broken any chance of simple in-place upgrade
from 8.2 to 8.3, but it's possible that 8.3 to 8.4 (or whenever we get around
to squeezing NUMERIC) could otherwise be data-compatible.

Files

PathChange+/−
src/include/catalog/catversion.h modified +2 −2
src/include/utils/numeric.h modified +3 −3