Re: maximum digits for NUMERIC
Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Gianni Ciolli <gianni.ciolli@2ndquadrant.it>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-27T12:20:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> 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. > > It is just to impress folks, and it is impressive. An instant > screenful of digits is pretty cool. If you are into impressing people with big numbers (or maybe doing something useful with them too) you may take a look at http://pgmp.projects.postgresql.org/ -- Daniele