Re: Numeric 508 datatype

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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).

I just tested from a standalone backend:

backend> select pow(10::numeric, 131071) + 1

and got 4095 zeros and no trailing '1' (wrong), so it isn't psql, it
must be something in the backend.

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