To: markw@osdl.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org,
	osdldbt-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: libpq ERROR: overflow on numeric ABS(value) ... 
In-reply-to: <200308072156.h77LuUo16238@mail.osdl.org> 
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Comments: In-reply-to markw@osdl.org
	message dated "Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:56:27 -0700"
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:14:48 -0400
Message-ID: <9052.1060294488@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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.

Since there's no NUMERIC datatypes in the cursor operation, it's a
dead certainty that the cursor itself is not where the error is being
thrown.  I see that your function issues a bunch of inserts and updates
internally; presumably the problem is that one of those is trying to
store bogus data into a table.  I'd suggest turning on that DEBUG code
you've sprinkled in there and looking to see which statement gets the
error ...

			regards, tom lane