From: | Satoshi Nagayasu <satoshi(dot)nagayasu(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: INTEGER range ("-2147483648" is not accepted.) |
Date: | 2010-06-22 13:37:45 |
Message-ID: | 4C20BCA9.9050400@gmail.com |
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Thom,
> Actually, come to think of it, shouldn't we have a gotchas page on the wiki?
I agree with that it should be described in some tech document,
but I don't have any good idea where/how it should be written.
Basically, it's a parser issue, but app developers may meet it
on their type casting (my guess), and it's a bit tricky.
Regards,
On 2010/06/22 18:57, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 22 June 2010 10:46, Thom Brown<thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 22 June 2010 09:59, Satoshi Nagayasu<satoshi(dot)nagayasu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Magnus,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your advice. I've understood how it happens.
>>>
>>> However, it looks tricky and difficult to understand,
>>> so I hope that the message could be more understandable
>>> as Thom mentioned.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>
>> This does appear to be a gotcha, as the following returns a negative
>> integer as expected:
>>
>> postgres=# SELECT -2147483648;
>> ?column?
>> -------------
>> -2147483648
>> (1 row)
>>
>> postgres=# SELECT pg_typeof(-2147483648);
>> pg_typeof
>> -----------
>> integer
>> (1 row)
>>
>> And just in case...
>>
>> postgres=# SELECT pg_typeof(test.my_num) FROM (SELECT -2147483648) AS
>> test(my_num);
>> pg_typeof
>> -----------
>> integer
>> (1 row)
>>
>> So it's affected by the cast operator?
>>
>> Thom
>>
>
> Actually, come to think of it, shouldn't we have a gotchas page on the wiki?
>
> Thom
>
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NAGAYASU Satoshi <satoshi(dot)nagayasu(at)gmail(dot)com>
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