Re: numeric/decimal docs bug?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> >     I think I made my point clear enough, that I consider calling
> >     these  functions  just once is plain sloppy.  But that's just
> >     my opinion. What do others think?
> 
> I don't have a problem with the current length of the numeric test.
> The original form of it (now shoved over to bigtests) did seem
> excessively slow to me ... but I can live with this one.
> 
> I do agree that someone ought to reimplement numeric using base10k
> arithmetic ... but it's not bugging me so much that I'm likely
> to get around to it anytime soon myself ...
> 
> Bruce, why is there no TODO item for that project?

Not sure.  I was aware of it for a while.  Added:
* Change NUMERIC data type to use base 10,000 internally

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