Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC type conversions leave much to be desired

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC type conversions leave much to be desired
Date: 1999-05-08 16:27:13
Message-ID: 25042.926180833@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
>> With fairly current sources:
> <snip>
>> ERROR: overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^1
>> for field with precision 31491 scale 52068

> fwiw, I've seen the same internal problems, and managed to fix them
> with a full clean and reinstall. I'm probably a week old on my tree
> vintage...

Good thought but no cigar ... I did a full fresh CVS checkout, configure,
make, install & initdb from scratch, and it still behaves the same.
Possibly it's been broken sometime in the last week? utils/adt/numeric.c
looks to have been last committed on 4 May.

regards, tom lane

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