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Subject: Problem with example numeric value
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/datatype-numeric.html
Description:

In the page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html it
is said that NUMERIC(2, -3) will round values to the nearest thousand and
can store values between -99000 and 99000. However, the range of values that
are allowed are -99499 to 99499 inclusive.