Update docs on numeric storage requirements.

robertmhaas · robertmhaas · commit 10b2e7404f80 · 2012-03-23T08:49:42.000-04:00
Since 9.1, the minimum overhead is three bytes, not five.

Fujii Masao
diff --git 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>
