Re: How to define the limit length for numeric type?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: vod vos <vodvos(at)zoho(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to define the limit length for numeric type?
Date: 2017-03-12 06:59:36
Message-ID: CAKFQuwbygDxCBnVgAWdF=mzO70PM6uUiLCQJgkdNV0QhfCUB3w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:14 PM, vod vos <vodvos(at)zoho(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> How to define the exact limit length of numeric type? For example,
>
> CREATE TABLE test (id serial, goose numeric(4,1));
>
> ​[...]
> 30.2 can be inserted into COLUMN goose, but I want 30.2
> ​[...]
> can not be inserted, how to do this?
>

​Not possible to both allow and disallow the same value (30.2) ...

A check constraint is "how" you define additional limitation on the data -
but you'll need to figure out where the logic flaw (or typo) came from.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/ddl-constraints.html#DDL-CONSTRAINTS-CHECK-CONSTRAINTS

David J.

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