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Re: maximum digits for NUMERIC

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Gianni Ciolli <gianni.ciolli@2ndquadrant.it>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-27T03:38:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar abr 26 12:58:19 -0300 2011:

> Wow, I am so glad someone documented this.  I often do factorial(4000)
> which generates 12673 digits when teaching classes, and it bugged me
> that we documented the limit as 1000 digits.

I keep wondering why you want to know factorial(4000) so often.

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