Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:41:55 Tom Lane wrote:
>> AFAICS, the SQL standard demands that precision and scale fields be
>> non-null all the time for those data types where they make sense
>> (this is encoded in the CHECK CONSTRAINTs that are declared for the
>> various information-schema tables, see particularly 21.15
>> DATA_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR base table in SQL99). DATE is clearly wrong
>> per spec, but it's not the only problem.
> The DATE change is the only thing I'd be prepared to make right now.
At this point I think the clear decision is "we're not changing anything
for 8.4". I've put the issue on the TODO list for future development
cycles.
regards, tom lane
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