[Qgis-user] shapefile/dbf number limitation?

[Zirneklitis]

It's against SHP specification. The maximum precision of number field is 
18 (with scale > 0, scale max = 17) or 19 (with scale = 0 ).

Karlis

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 3:58 PM, John C. Tull wrote:
>
>..
> I can convert a postgis feature with a double real field to shapefile (ogr2ogr) and get a 24.12 formatted number in the DBF,
>..