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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> As an aside, for anyone more fluent than I who reads this, is the use of
> the word "dynamic scale" in this code comment supposed to be "display
> scale"?
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/cf96907aadca454c4094819c2ecdde=
e07eafe203/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c#L121

Yeah, I think you're right.

			regards, tom lane