| From: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) |
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| To: | oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su (Oleg Bartunov) |
| Cc: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type |
| Date: | 1999-01-06 17:09:48 |
| Message-ID: | m0zxwSr-000EBRC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de |
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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On my Linux box/i586/libc5, postgresql 6.4.2:
>
> test=> create table n1 (n numeric(10,5), d decimal(10,5));
> ERROR: NUMERIC precision 10 must be 9
> test=>
>
> Something weird ! I compiled postgres 6.4.2 after applying Jan's feature
> patch and configure --enable-locale
Not weird. The new NUMERIC datatype (arbitrary precision
numeric format) isn't part of the v6.4 tree and will not be.
It's only in the current development tree which will become
v6.5.
Jan
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