Re: Numeric 508 datatype

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Actually, no. If I cut'n paste the number from psql to
> > cat > foo
> > <shift> <insert>
> > then only 4096 chars are copied. (Amusingly, I can't add a newline to
> > ^D and close the file. I must delete one char to do that.)
>
> Hmm, cut buffer limitation in X or someplace? I definitely get the
> right number of characters into the file written with \g, and what looks
> like a reasonable number of screensful of plain psql output. If Bruce
> is seeing the right number of dashes and the wrong number of data
> characters in his \g output then *something* is pretty weird there.

Well, I just tried the \g test and it is correct (12675 digits or so).

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