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Re: [HACKERS] Upgrades for 6.4.1

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: jwieck@debis.com
Cc: jwieck@debis.com, hannu@trust.ee, lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-12-19T01:39:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
>     The only ugly thing is, that I needed to  put  the  precision
>     AND  the  scale together into atttypmod (I limited both to 99
>     for now and put them as prec<<8 |  scale  into).  So  pg_dump
>     will need attention later.

Atttypmod was expanded to 32 bits for exactly that use.  I recommend
16-bits for each option.

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