On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:32:03AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I'd feel a lot happier about this if we could keep the dynamic range > up to, say, 10^512 so that it's still true that NUMERIC can be a > universal parse-time representation. That would also make it even > more unlikely that anyone would complain about loss of functionality.
Would it be feasable to have a type that satisfies that constraint but isn't generally intended for on-disk use? My thought is that this new type would be used mostly for casting purposes. Kind of like the UNKNOWNNUMBER but easier to do since it'd just be another type. (BTW, I'm not suggesting that we disallow un-disk storage of the type, only discourage it unless someone really, really needs an absurd number of digits). -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
