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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: bigint overflow 'feature'
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Msg-id 11783.1001114029@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to bigint overflow 'feature'  (Allan Engelhardt <allane@cybaea.com>)
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Use NUMERIC if you're concerned about overflow.  The integer datatypes
are just C integers, and C doesn't provide any reasonable way to detect
overflow in integer arithmetic...

            regards, tom lane

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