Re: Prestige users - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Roderick A. Anderson
Subject Re: Prestige users
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0405051042140.6739-100000@main.cyber-office.net
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In response to Re: Prestige users  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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On Wed, 5 May 2004, scott.marlowe wrote:

> Just try this simple test in MySQL and see if the boss still thinks it's
> suitable for accounting:

I'll toss in the Pg version

db => create table test (i1 int, n1 numeric(8,2));
CREATE

db=> insert into test values (10000000000000,100000000000.345678);
ERROR: dtoi4: integer out of range

Oh my gosh ... an error!  Oh yeah it is an error. :-)


Rod
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