Silent overflow - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Silent overflow
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Msg-id 20040423212318.GQ41429@nasby.net
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stats=# select 10000*1000000000, 10000*1000000000::bigint;
  ?column?  |    ?column?
------------+----------------
 1316134912 | 10000000000000
(1 row)

Shouldn't the first expression throw an error instead of doing whatever
it's actually doing? This is the sort of thing I like to bash mysql
about...

Version 7.4.2 if it matters...
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