Re: Don't understand error?

Just to say thanks. It looks like the error originated from multiplying the
result of an EXTRACT(EPOCH from time) . Once I added ::numeric to this, the
query ran ok. I also changed a couple of integer types to numeric, so it
might have been those either.
On 14 Apr 2014 15:25, "James David Smith" <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Good tip. Thanks. I don't think there are many values stored like
> that, so it should make it a bit easier to find.
>
> On 14 April 2014 15:24, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> Yes, I thought the same. Glad to know that I might be along the right
> >> lines. I've started taking parameters out one-by-one to try and find
> >> the culprit. Yes, there are a variety of numbers stored as NUMERIC in
> >> various places. For example:
> >
> > AFAIR, there is no such thing as an underflow error in the type-NUMERIC
> > code --- it will happily round to zero instead. You should be looking
> for
> > something involving float4 or float8 (aka real/double precision).
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>