Re: cant delete row

Tom Lane wrote:
>"Tamsin" <tg_mail(at)bryncadfan(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> test=# delete from order_head where order_head_id = 1581;
>> ERROR: overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^9 for field with precision 8
>> scale 2
>
>This is extremely bizarre. A DELETE does not care what data is in the
>row. Do you perhaps have rules or triggers on this table that you
>haven't told us about?

But surely the WHERE clause on this DELETE will care? I don't know
how the internal details are arranged, but it sounds as though it is
the comparison that is blowing up.

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