Cast double precision to integer & check for overflow

From: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Cast double precision to integer & check for overflow
Date: 2013-01-26 21:13:29
Message-ID: ke1gtm$jbk$1@ger.gmane.org
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I need to cast a double precision into an integer, and I want to check
that the value will actually fit (modulo rounding).

Coming from a C/Java background, this seems like something that should
be utterly trivial. In my searching, however, I can't seem to find any
SQL equivalent of INT_MAX, Integer.MAX_VALUE, etc.

Do I have to hard-code this value?

Thanks!

(And yes, I do feel stupid having to ask this question here.)

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