The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 15519
Logged by: Victor Petrovykh
Email address: victor@magic.io
PostgreSQL version: 10.5
Operating system: Gentoo Linux 4.14.20
Description:
Offending examples:
SELECT ((2147483647::float4) - 1.0::float4)::int4;
SELECT ((2147483590::float4) - 1.0::float4)::int4;
SELECT ((2147483647::float4) + 1.0::float4)::int4;
They all produce the same result: -2147483648
I understand that a float4 cannot represent large integers with the same
precision as int4, that's OK. What surprised me is that instead of getting
an "overflow error" or "integer out of range" I simply got a negative result
for a value that is actually close to maximum int4. To contrast this, the
query:
SELECT ((2147483647::float4) + 200.0::float4)::int4;
The above produces the expected "ERROR: integer out of range"
