On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:34 AM, 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

I agree that this makes more sense than what is currently done.  But
are we going to break backwards compatibility to achieve it?  Do the
standards specify a behavior here?

Cheers,

Jeff


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