Re: [DOCS] NUMERIC size

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: >> Numeric values are physically stored without any extra leading or >> trailing zeroes. Thus, the declared precision and scale of a column >> are maximums, not fixed allocations. (In this sense the numeric type >> is more akin to varchar(n) tha

[DOCS] NUMERIC size

2012-03-21 Thread Fujii Masao
Hi, > Numeric values are physically stored without any extra leading or > trailing zeroes. Thus, the declared precision and scale of a column > are maximums, not fixed allocations. (In this sense the numeric type > is more akin to varchar(n) than to char(n).) The actual storage > requirement is tw