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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
