On 09/06/2013 07:57 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.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.
>
So we already get it wrong by rewriting ?



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