| From: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Bug? |
| Date: | 1998-02-06 15:53:08 |
| Message-ID: | 34DB31E4.BAD1C91D@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> I think it converts it to an integer, and then by the time it tries to
> convert it, it has already chopped off the top of the number. The only
> fix for this would be to read all integers in as 64-bit integers, then
> do the conversion, but that could be a performance problem.
Well, the other possibility is to try converting to float8 only if the int4
conversion fails. If both fail, then throw an elog(ERROR). I have patches for
this...
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