"John D. Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Hm ... between that, the possible crypto connection, and John's >> personal testimony
> Just to be clear, this John has yet to use NUMERIC for any > calculations, let alone in that range. My mistake, got confused as to who had said what. The point remains though: in discussing this proposed patch, we were assuming that 10^508 would still be far beyond what people actually needed. Even one or two reports from the list membership of actual use of larger values casts a pretty big shadow on that assumption. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq