Rails core - May 2009 - Decimal columns with zero scale

Hi,

I''m using Rails v2.3.2 with a PostgreSQL database and I needed a
column to hold very large integers. Defining a migration such as:

    create_table :large_integers do |t|
      t.decimal :large, :scale => 0, :precision => 80

      t.timestamps
    end

Gave me a numeric(40, 0) column which was exactly what I wanted.
However, after running the schema dumper, db/schema.rb contained the
following:

  create_table "large_integers", :force => true do |t|
    t.integer  "large",      :limit => 80, :precision => 80,
:scale =>
0
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
  end

Unfortunately, this creates a plain integer column, which can not hold
numbers this large.

I''ve created a patch to fix this problem in the schema dumper, and
it''s attached to Lighthouse ticket #2741:

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/2741-decimal-column-with-zero-scale-dumped-as-integer-column

Could someone please review this patch?

Thanks,
Giles