Re: Don't understand error?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Don't understand error?
Date: 2014-04-14 14:24:19
Message-ID: 13033.1397485459@sss.pgh.pa.us
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James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Yes, I thought the same. Glad to know that I might be along the right
> lines. I've started taking parameters out one-by-one to try and find
> the culprit. Yes, there are a variety of numbers stored as NUMERIC in
> various places. For example:

AFAIR, there is no such thing as an underflow error in the type-NUMERIC
code --- it will happily round to zero instead. You should be looking for
something involving float4 or float8 (aka real/double precision).

regards, tom lane

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