Re: [HACKERS] numeric & decimal

>     For  some reason (dunno why) the parser ignores the precision
>     for DECIMAL.  atttypmod is set hardcoded to -1.  So the above
>     is identical to a
> 
>         CREATE TABLE test (n numeric(10,3), d decimal);
> 
>     I'll  test  what  happens  if I enable it in gram.y and if it
>     doesn't break any regression commit the changes.

In the old days, we couldn't handle precision, so we ignored it.

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