Re: numeric/decimal docs bug?

> Jan Wieck wrote:
> > > The hard limit is certainly no more than 64K, since we store these
> > > numbers in half of an atttypmod.  In practice I suspect the limit may
> > > be less; Jan would be more likely to remember...
> > 
> >     It is arbitrary of course. I don't recall completely, have to
> >     dig into the code, but there might be some side  effect  when
> >     mucking with it.
> > 
> >     The NUMERIC code increases the actual internal precision when
> >     doing multiply and divide, what  happens  a  gazillion  times
> >     when  doing higher functions like trigonometry. I think there
> >     was some connection between the max precision  and  how  high
> >     this internal precision can grow, so increasing the precision
> >     might affect the computational  performance  of  such  higher
> >     functions significantly.
> 
> Oh, interesting, maybe we should just leave it alone.

So are we going to just fix the docs?
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Tatsuo Ishii