Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 13b888dff8f7285fff3645c09f83fe66075af3b0..74408b0f3971cae0054f55bc485d09ab6397b4b6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -529,8 +529,9 @@ NUMERIC
      
       The maximum allowed precision when explicitely specified in the
       type declaration is 1000; otherwise the current implementation
-      of the NUMERIC is subject to the limits described
-      in .
+      of NUMERIC (when the precision is not specified)
+      is subject to the limits described in 
+      linkend="datatype-numeric-table">.