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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:43:31 -0500
From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
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To: Thomas O'Connell <tfo@monsterlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: double precision to numeric overflow error
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Thomas O'Connell wrote:
> 
> Well, it would've immediately (rather than the several minutes it took)
> given away the problem if it read something like:
> 
> ERROR:  overflow caused by cast of double precision value to numeric
> without sufficient precision, scale (15, 6)
> 
> or even, depending on how much detail is available or how much worth
> assigned to error reporting:

The message will be exactly the same in all cases, since there is no
more detail. I think words about casting and such could be fairly
confusing in the case someone just inserts a literal value - no?


Jan

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