Re: [HACKERS] numeric & decimal

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying numeric & decimal types in v6.5beta1 and I have two questions
> about it.
>
> [...]
>
> Second question:
> Why PostgreSQL allows to insert 14 digits into a numeric(5,1) ?
>
> create table test(
> n numeric(10,3),
> d decimal(5,1)
> );

For some reason (dunno why) the parser ignores the precision
for DECIMAL. atttypmod is set hardcoded to -1. So the above
is identical to a

CREATE TABLE test (n numeric(10,3), d decimal);

I'll test what happens if I enable it in gram.y and if it
doesn't break any regression commit the changes.

Jan

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