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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 16:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200308072353.h77Nr6o12685@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

Ok, found the offending statement:
	UPDATE stock
	SET s_quantity = s_quantity - 4
	WHERE s_i_id = 28472
          AND s_w_id = 2

s_quantity is defined as NUMERIC(4).  So does this means s_quantity must
be a positive number?  Should I use a different data type?

Thanks,
Mark

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