Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] Is it necessary to rewrite table while increasing the scale of datatype numeric？

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, wangshuo(at)highgo(dot)com(dot)cn, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] Is it necessary to rewrite table while increasing the scale of datatype numeric？
Date: 2013-09-06 17:57:52
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZt+XYpEhHis8dp6PDgaMTXfr6dK-GNedyJH4ZVs0WUAg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> But I wonder if we could just declare that that's not what the scale typmod
> does. That it's just a maximum scale but it's perfectly valid for NUMERIC
> data with lower scales to be stored in a column than the typmod says. In a
> way the current behaviour is like bpchar but it would be nice if it was more
> like varchar

Sure, but the point is that 5.0000 is not the same as 5.000 today. If
you start whacking this around you'll be changing that behavior, I
think.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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