From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type |
Date: | 1999-01-06 16:28:56 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.3.96.SK.990106192549.16645B-100000@ra |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 15:15:11 +0000
> From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
> To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Cc: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Numeric type
>
> > > OK, I give up :) How do I use the numeric type?
> > Works here. Don't you hate when that happens:
>
> postgres=> create table n1 (n numeric(10,5), d decimal(10,5));
> CREATE
> postgres=> insert into n1 values ('1.23456', '1.23456');
> ERROR: overflow on numeric
> ABS(value) >= 10^0 for field with precision 2086 scale 53380
>
> *sigh*
>
> Any hints on where to look? I did a CVSup update, then a "cvs -PdA" on
> my development tree, a "make clean install" and an initdb. I did not try
> a full clean checkout, but would think that it wouldn't help.
>
> Anyone else running on Linux/i686/libc5 having success? If so, I'll go
> back to working on outer joins...
>
On my Linux box/i586/libc5, postgresql 6.4.2:
test=> create table n1 (n numeric(10,5), d decimal(10,5));
ERROR: NUMERIC precision 10 must be 9
test=>
Something weird ! I compiled postgres 6.4.2 after applying Jan's feature
patch and configure --enable-locale
Oleg
> - Tom
>
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