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From: markw@osdl.org
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: osdldbt-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: libpq ERROR: overflow on numeric ABS(value) ...
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200308072223.h77MNQo24759@mail.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9052.1060294488@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On  7 Aug, Tom Lane wrote:
> markw@osdl.org writes:
>>>> DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR SELECT new_order(...)
>>>> FETCH ALL IN mycursor
>>>> ERROR:  overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^4 for field with precision 4 scale 0
> 
>> Does it make sense that is throws the error on the FETCH instead of the
>> previous statement?
> 
> Sure: the cursor won't actually be executed until you fetch from it.

Oh right, I should have remembered that...

Thanks,
Mark



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