On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
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> 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