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Re: ERROR: value out of range: underflow


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: rod(at)iol(dot)ie, Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: ERROR: value out of range: underflow
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:39:19 -0300
  • Message-id: <20100226183919.GC3980@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>

Thom Brown escribió:
> On 26 February 2010 14:33, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> > On 26/02/2010 12:15, Thom Brown wrote:
> >> On 26 February 2010 12:02, Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm also curious to know why there's an underflow error instead of
> overflow.  And in fact, even if a 19 digit phone number were passed
> in, it would only result in a 10^-1 calculation, resulting in 0.1.
> 
> I think we need to know what value is being passed in to generate this error.

If you pass a string longer than 342 chars it fails with an underflow.
Not sure why it doesn't fail the second time, sounds fishy.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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