| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | gquercini(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with example numeric value |
| Date: | 2026-02-06 13:25:48 |
| Message-ID: | 7a4932f87675aef7cabf61279e9ee05ee9c528fd.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Fri, 2026-02-06 at 10:20 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> In the page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html it
> is said that NUMERIC(2, -3) will round values to the nearest thousand and
> can store values between -99000 and 99000. However, the range of values that
> are allowed are -99499 to 99499 inclusive.
test=> CREATE TABLE t (n NUMERIC(2, -3));
CREATE TABLE
test=> INSERT INTO t VALUES (99499);
INSERT 0 1
test=> TABLE t;
n
-------
99000
(1 row)
It will *store* 99000, even if you *insert* 99499.
I'd say that the documentation is correct.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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