Re: Reducing NUMERIC size for 8.3

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> The objections to applying this patch originally were:
>> 2. it would restrict number of digits to 508 and there are allegedly
>> some people that want to store > 508 digits.
>>   
> If 508 digits are not enough, are1000 digits be sufficient? Both limits
> appear quite arbitrary to me.

This 1000 is just a restriction on the typmod of numeric.

You can still use a much higher number of digits, if you use 
unconstrained numeric:

test=> create table test (n numeric); 

CREATE TABLE
test=> insert into test values (10::numeric ^ 99999);
INSERT 0 1
test=> select length(n) from test;
  length
--------
  100017
(1 row)

Best Regards
Michael Paesold