| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "John D(dot) Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508 |
| Date: | 2005-12-06 18:20:15 |
| Message-ID: | 8796.1133893215@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"John D. Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm ... between that, the possible crypto connection, and John's
>> personal testimony
> Just to be clear, this John has yet to use NUMERIC for any
> calculations, let alone in that range.
My mistake, got confused as to who had said what.
The point remains though: in discussing this proposed patch, we were
assuming that 10^508 would still be far beyond what people actually
needed. Even one or two reports from the list membership of actual
use of larger values casts a pretty big shadow on that assumption.
regards, tom lane
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