| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Sergio Lob <Sergio_Lob(at)iwaysoftware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ephraim Spravtsev <Ephraim_Spravtsev(at)ibi(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Precision and scale of numeric column reported as value |
| Date: | 2005-03-23 21:25:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20050323212505.GB5487@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:13:22PM -0500, Sergio Lob wrote:
> Precision is the number of total digits in the number. Scale is the
> number of fractional digits.
> For instance, a column defined as NUMERIC(10,3) should return
> precision=10, scale=3. The error only occurs for a column defined as
> NUMERIC (without precision or scale specified). Presumably, there is a
> default precision and scale assigned to the column by postgreSQL, which
> is not -1.
That assumption is wrong. There is no default.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"La primera ley de las demostraciones en vivo es: no trate de usar el sistema.
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