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Tom Lane authored
word comes before the weight instead of after. This will allow future binary-compatible extension of the representation to support compact formats, as discussed on pgsql-hackers around 2007/06/18. The reason to do it now is that we've already pretty well broken any chance of simple in-place upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3, but it's possible that 8.3 to 8.4 (or whenever we get around to squeezing NUMERIC) could otherwise be data-compatible.
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