On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range.
>>
>> This is entirely redundant. You've added "(when the precision is not
>> specified)" but that's exactly what the word "otherwise" already
>> conveys.
>
> Right, but the old wording was:
>
> otherwise the current implementation of the <type>NUMERIC</type>
> is subject to the limits described in <xref
> linkend="datatype-numeric-table">.
>
> I removed the extra "the", and I didn't think people were clear you
> could just specify NUMERIC alone. We know you can you can do things
> like VARCHAR, but others will probably not realize it so I wanted to
> explicity mention it. Other wording?
Oh, good catch. I agree that removing the extra "the" is a good
change, but I think you should remove the parenthetical phrase you
added.
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