From e83f827f5abeeca4750b40bd6d8701d91fead8dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:40:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update docs on numeric storage requirements.
Since 9.1, the minimum overhead is three bytes, not five.
Fujii Masao
---
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 58e46b58701..91dc35dc9d2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ 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>
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