From: Tony Capobianco <tcapobianco@prospectiv.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Determine length of numeric field
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:14:35 -0500
Message-ID: <1297804475.1703.16.camel@tony1.localdomain> (raw)
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Tom,
That's a frighteningly easy solution.
Thanks.
Tony
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 16:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Capobianco <tcapobianco@prospectiv.com> writes:
> > I'm altering datatypes in several tables from numeric to integer. In
> > doing so, I get the following error:
>
> > dw=# \d uniq_hits
> > Table "support.uniq_hits"
> > Column | Type | Modifiers
> > ------------+---------+-----------
> > sourceid | numeric |
> > hitdate | date |
> > total | numeric |
> > hitdate_id | integer |
> > Indexes:
> > "uniq_hits_hitdateid_idx" btree (hitdate_id), tablespace
> > "support_idx"
> > Tablespace: "support"
>
> > esave_dw=# alter table uniq_hits alter sourceid type int;
> > ERROR: integer out of range
>
> > Sourceid should not be more than 5 digits long. I'm able to perform
> > this query on Oracle and would like something similar on postgres 8.4:
>
> > delete from uniq_hits where sourceid in (select sourceid from uniq_hits
> > where length(sourceid) > 5);
>
> That seems like a pretty bizarre operation to apply to a number. Why
> not "where sourceid > 99999"? Or maybe "where abs(sourceid) > 99999"
> would be better.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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