Change on-disk representation of NUMERIC datatype so that the sign_dscale
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:21:55 +0000 (22:21 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:21:55 +0000 (22:21 +0000)
commitfc0ee062aafa5ec800dc0461387c3b01ca3d85ec
treef27a07e2d72e5cd41fee5737f140239448724ffe
parentb71d0cdd4a279329b05b0699e1fb53802f30e46b
Change on-disk representation of NUMERIC datatype so that the sign_dscale
word comes before the weight instead of after.  This will allow future
binary-compatible extension of the representation to support compact formats,
as discussed on pgsql-hackers around 2007/06/18.  The reason to do it now is
that we've already pretty well broken any chance of simple in-place upgrade
from 8.2 to 8.3, but it's possible that 8.3 to 8.4 (or whenever we get around
to squeezing NUMERIC) could otherwise be data-compatible.
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/utils/numeric.h