Re: How to define the limit length for numeric type?

From: rob stone <floriparob(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: vod vos <vodvos(at)zoho(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to define the limit length for numeric type?
Date: 2017-03-12 21:28:53
Message-ID: 1489354133.8887.1.camel@gmail.com
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Hello,

On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 22:14 -0800, vod vos wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> How to define the exact limit length of numeric type? For example, 
>
> CREATE TABLE test  (id serial, goose numeric(4,1));
>
> 300.2 and 30.2 can be inserted into COLUMN goose, but I want 30.2 or
> 3.2 can not be inserted, how to do this?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>

Assuming that column goose may only contain values ranging from 100.0
to 999.9, then a check constraint along the lines of:-

goose > 99.9 and < 1000

should do the trick.

HTH,
Rob

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