Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2] - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]
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Msg-id 3073cc9b0809061622m27009a1at6864d59d00832d2d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
>> seems there is something wrong in the unlikely macro (i'm using GCC
>> 4.2.3 in Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7 with amd64)
>
>> postgres=# select -256::uint1;
>> ERROR:  uint1 out of range
>
> No, that's just because this is parsed as -(256::uint1)
>

ah! ok, i see the point...

postgres=# select 256::uint1;
ERROR:  uint1 out of range

but is right that way of parsing? so i get a negative number instead
of an error?

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Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
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