Re: ERROR: value out of range: underflow

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: rod(at)iol(dot)ie, Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: value out of range: underflow
Date: 2010-02-26 18:39:19
Message-ID: 20100226183919.GC3980@alvh.no-ip.org
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Thom Brown escribió:
> On 26 February 2010 14:33, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> > On 26/02/2010 12:15, Thom Brown wrote:
> >> On 26 February 2010 12:02, Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm also curious to know why there's an underflow error instead of
> overflow. And in fact, even if a 19 digit phone number were passed
> in, it would only result in a 10^-1 calculation, resulting in 0.1.
>
> I think we need to know what value is being passed in to generate this error.

If you pass a string longer than 342 chars it fails with an underflow.
Not sure why it doesn't fail the second time, sounds fishy.

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