From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Math Huh?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:59:43 -0700
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<11059.1022802214@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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
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