From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Math Huh?
Date: 30 May 2002 19:36:57 -0500
Message-ID: <1022805419.356.0.camel@lerlaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205301659.43775.josh@agliodbs.com>
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On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:59, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> > (yawn) int4 overflow. Use float or numeric if you want overflow
> > robustness...
>
> Shouldn't it give me an error? This does:
>
> SELECT (255^4)::INT4
Why? You're doing 3 multiplications, instead of one power. It has no
idea what the number is.
>
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