On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:14:26 -0800,
Max Ueda <mhanzo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Some results made me think of coercion between int
> types. For example, atributing a int8 value into a
> int2 variable. Does it really happen (coercion)? Is
> the int8 value automatically converted into int2, or
> an error should be returned in that case?
area=> select 99999999999::int8::int2;
ERROR: smallint out of range