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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Billy G. Allie
Your email address : Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Pentium

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : UnixWare 7.0.1

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.4) : Current CVS version

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : Optimizing C Compilation
System (CCS) 3.2 08/18/98
(u701)

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c fails to compile due to a string having an
embedded new-line character.

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Compile the program. :-)

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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Apply the following patch:

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*** src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c.orig Mon Mar 1 10:13:27 1999
--- src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c Mon Mar 1 23:09:00 1999
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*** 2370,2377 ****
if (var->weight >= maxweight)
{
free_allvars();
! elog(ERROR, "overflow on numeric
! ABS(value) >= 10^%d for field with precision %d scale %d",
var->weight, precision, scale);
}

--- 2370,2377 ----
if (var->weight >= maxweight)
{
free_allvars();
! elog(ERROR, "overflow on numeric "
! "ABS(value) >= 10^%d for field with precision %d scale %d",
var->weight, precision, scale);
}

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