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Subject: documentation describing the range of a number type 'integer' is incorrect
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:27:39 +0000
Message-ID: <162759765986.25752.13395472408540963267@wrigleys.postgresql.org> (raw)
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/datatype-numeric.html
Description:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/datatype-numeric.html says that the range
of a numeric type integer is -2147483648 to +2147483647 but
PGTYPESnumeric_to_int considers -2147483648 (a perfectly valid 32-bit
integer) to be invalid because it compares to -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN or
(-INT_MAX - 1). This goes back to the initial commit in the git repo for
src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/numeric.c. And doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
documents the min being -INT_MAX.
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