Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> In datatype.sgml:
> The type numeric can store numbers of practically
> unlimited size and precision,...
> I think this is simply wrong since the current implementation of
> numeric and decimal data types limit the precision up to 1000.
> #define NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION 1000
I was thinking just the other day that there's no reason for that
limit to be so low. Jan, couldn't we bump it up to 8 or 16K or so?
(Not that I'd care to do heavy arithmetic on such numbers, or that
I believe there's any practical use for them ... but why set the
limit lower than we must?)
regards, tom lane