From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: John Guthrie <jguthrie@psynapsetech.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: upcasting multiplication in a query
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:51:55 -0500
Message-ID: <8287.1047934315@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"John Guthrie" <jguthrie@psynapsetech.net> writes:
> select (seconds*1000000)+micros from my_table;
> but it looks to me like postgresql puts the rresult into another int4 (since
> i am getting negative numbers, i assume overflow). how can i get it to use
> int8?
Cast the constant to int8.
regards, tom lane
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