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On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 18:58 +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> CCing the list ( hint: use reply all in your MUA, otherwhise people
> will loose the thread, this message came only for me. If that was
> what
> you wnated, please indicate so in future messages, as the custom in
> this list is to reply to list + posters )

Got it.

> 
> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Олег Самойлов <olleg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 17:54 +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's probably doing 1(integer) => double precioson => numeric(20)
> > > or
> > > something similar if you do not specify.
> > > 
> > > Francisco Olarte.
> > Well, the question was not only about why there is only 20 "3"
> > after
> > point, I suspect this (may be it's not good enough documented, but
> > reasonable), but also about why are there infinite amount of "0"
> > after
> > point if I subtract "3"s.
> Well, I just skipped over the rest of the code. I consider casting to
> unespecified numeric widths a very bad habit and did not want to
> encourage it.
> 
> Francisco Olarte.

There is nothing in documentation that this casting is a very bad
habit. And this is most interesting part, about infinite zeros. Looked
like a bug.


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