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diff --git a/src/include/utils/numeric.h b/src/include/utils/numeric.h
index 42daf5e4a53..cd8ff13e289 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/numeric.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/numeric.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
*
* 1998 Jan Wieck
*
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/include/utils/numeric.h,v 1.7 1999/07/14 01:20:30 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/include/utils/numeric.h,v 1.8 2000/01/15 23:42:48 tgl Exp $
*
* ----------
*/
@@ -21,31 +21,41 @@
#define NUMERIC_DEFAULT_PRECISION 30
#define NUMERIC_DEFAULT_SCALE 6
+
+/* ----------
+ * Internal limits on the scales chosen for calculation results
+ * ----------
+ */
#define NUMERIC_MAX_DISPLAY_SCALE NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION
-#define NUMERIC_MIN_DISPLAY_SCALE NUMERIC_DEFAULT_SCALE + 4
+#define NUMERIC_MIN_DISPLAY_SCALE (NUMERIC_DEFAULT_SCALE + 4)
#define NUMERIC_MAX_RESULT_SCALE (NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION * 2)
#define NUMERIC_MIN_RESULT_SCALE (NUMERIC_DEFAULT_PRECISION + 4)
-#define NUMERIC_UNPACKED_DATASIZE (NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION * 2 + 4)
-
/* ----------
- * Sign values and macros to deal with n_sign_dscale
+ * Sign values and macros to deal with packing/unpacking n_sign_dscale
* ----------
*/
#define NUMERIC_SIGN_MASK 0xC000
#define NUMERIC_POS 0x0000
#define NUMERIC_NEG 0x4000
#define NUMERIC_NAN 0xC000
+#define NUMERIC_DSCALE_MASK 0x3FFF
#define NUMERIC_SIGN(n) ((n)->n_sign_dscale & NUMERIC_SIGN_MASK)
-#define NUMERIC_DSCALE(n) ((n)->n_sign_dscale & ~NUMERIC_SIGN_MASK)
+#define NUMERIC_DSCALE(n) ((n)->n_sign_dscale & NUMERIC_DSCALE_MASK)
#define NUMERIC_IS_NAN(n) (NUMERIC_SIGN(n) != NUMERIC_POS && \
NUMERIC_SIGN(n) != NUMERIC_NEG)
/* ----------
* The Numeric data type stored in the database
+ *
+ * NOTE: by convention, values in the packed form have been stripped of
+ * all leading and trailing zeroes (except there will be a trailing zero
+ * in the last byte, if the number of digits is odd). In particular,
+ * if the value is zero, there will be no digits at all! The weight is
+ * arbitrary in this case, but we normally set it to zero.
* ----------
*/
typedef struct NumericData
@@ -54,7 +64,7 @@ typedef struct NumericData
int16 n_weight; /* Weight of 1st digit */
uint16 n_rscale; /* Result scale */
uint16 n_sign_dscale; /* Sign + display scale */
- unsigned char n_data[1]; /* Digit data */
+ unsigned char n_data[1]; /* Digit data (2 decimal digits/byte) */
} NumericData;
typedef NumericData *Numeric;