Re: bigint out of range

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bigint out of range
Date: 2019-05-18 17:49:53
Message-ID: CAKFQuwb5r0oWP2NFBRmhKJAW3xzK2f6z9_UxxTCnRiRxjMt1uQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Saturday, May 18, 2019, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> wrote:

> On 2019-05-16 08:48:51 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:31 AM Daulat Ram <Daulat(dot)Ram(at)exponential(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > url_hash | bigint | | not null |
> >
> >
> > Change the type of url_hash; make it text instead of bigint.
>
> Or numeric(38, 0). I think it isn't coincidence that he tries to store
> a 38-digit number in it.
>

You don’t perform math on a hash thus its not a number no matter that it
may contain only digits.

David J.

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