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authorRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>2012-03-22 15:40:27 -0400
committerRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>2012-03-23 08:49:42 -0400
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Update docs on numeric storage requirements.
Since 9.1, the minimum overhead is three bytes, not five. Fujii Masao
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@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ NUMERIC
type is more akin to <type>varchar(<replaceable>n</>)</type>
than to <type>char(<replaceable>n</>)</type>.) The actual storage
requirement is two bytes for each group of four decimal digits,
- plus five to eight bytes overhead.
+ plus three to eight bytes overhead.
</para>
<indexterm>