The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2081
Logged by: Farid Z
Email address: farid (AT) zidsoft (DOT) com
PostgreSQL version: 8.1
Operating system: Windows 2000
Description: ODBC numeric(12,6) SQL_C_CHAR clobbered data
Details:

Server 8.1, ODBC driver PostgreSQL ANSI 8.01.01.00
Driver clobbers data retrieving numeric(12,6) into a SQL_C_CHAR buffer (
allocated buffer size 21 bytes ) ANSI application. numeric( 12,4)works ok.
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CREATE TABLE test_numeric
(
price numeric(12,6),
)

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