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From: ktm@rice.edu <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Filip Rembiałkowski <filip.rembialkowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Community PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: INT8 / float casting question
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:15:10 -0500
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:58:06PM +0100, Filip Rembiałkowski wrote:
> psql.bin (9.3.4, server 9.3.5)
> Type "help" for help.
> 
> dev=# select (2^63-1)::INT8;
> ERROR:  bigint out of range
> 
> 
> Does it HAVE to be so?
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9223372036854775807
> 
> Thanks
> Filip

Yes:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype.html

Table 8-1:

bigint, aliases int8 - signed eight-byte integer

PostgreSQL does not have an unsigned integer type, since all the
SQL ones are signed.

Regards,
Ken


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