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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Alain Lavigne wrote:

> Thanks that worked, but why does that happen or maybe you could point
> to the proper thread so I read up on it.

It's an issue that the numeric constant gets cast to int4 somewhat
prematurely.  I don't have a pointer to a thread off hand, but if you
search the archives you should find a couple.