Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
>> seems there is something wrong in the unlikely macro (i'm using GCC
>> 4.2.3 in Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7 with amd64)
>
>> postgres=# select -256::uint1;
>> ERROR: uint1 out of range
>
> No, that's just because this is parsed as -(256::uint1)
>

ah! ok, i see the point...

postgres=# select 256::uint1;
ERROR: uint1 out of range

but is right that way of parsing? so i get a negative number instead
of an error?

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