| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Brian C(dot) DeRocher" <brian(dot)derocher(at)mitretek(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] numerics lose scale and precision in views of unions |
| Date: | 2006-08-10 13:38:10 |
| Message-ID: | 14349.1155217090@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> This was using just a straight-up 'numeric' data type though. Perhaps
> for that case we could drop the unnecessary zeros?
That would make numeric useless for the common scientific/engineering
usage where you write the number of decimal places you think are
significant in your measurement. In that usage, "1.0" and "1.000"
do have different meanings.
regards, tom lane
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