From 10b2e7404f80ef26a3a6df6b1a9121bd16efb905 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 0cba658758..9dfecbbbc3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -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>
-- 
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