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      <para>
       Numeric values are physically stored without any extra leading or
       trailing zeroes.  Thus, the declared precision and scale of a column
!      are maximums, not fixed allocations.  (In this sense the <type>numeric</>
!      type is more akin to <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</>)</type>
!      than to <type>char(<replaceable>n</>)</type>.)
      </para>
  
      <para>
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      <para>
       Numeric values are physically stored without any extra leading or
       trailing zeroes.  Thus, the declared precision and scale of a column
!      are maximums, not fixed allocations, so each numeric needs eight
!      bytes in headers and two bytes for each four decimal digits actually
!      stored.  (In this sense the <type>numeric</> type is more akin to
!      <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</>)</type> than to
!      <type>char(<replaceable>n</>)</type>.)
      </para>
  
      <para>