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To: Filip Rembiałkowski <filip.rembialkowski@gmail.com>
To: Community PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: INT8 / float casting question
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:45:47 -0700
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On 10/31/2014 07:58 AM, 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
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> Does it HAVE to be so?
No, figured it out:
test=# select ((2^63-1)::numeric);
numeric
---------------------
9223372036854780000
is rounding up.
To get what you want:
test=# select (2^63::numeric-1)::int8;
int8
---------------------
9223372036854775807
(1 row)
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9223372036854775807
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> Thanks
> Filip
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