On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:13:22PM -0500, Sergio Lob wrote:
> Precision is the number of total digits in the number. Scale is the 
> number of  fractional digits.
> For instance, a column defined as NUMERIC(10,3)  should return 
> precision=10, scale=3. The error only occurs for a column defined as 
> NUMERIC  (without precision or scale specified). Presumably, there is a 
> default precision and scale assigned to the column by postgreSQL, which 
> is not -1.

That assumption is wrong.  There is no default.

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