On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:18 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Do you have a view on this point?
>>
>
> NULL when overflowed seems like the opposite of the desired effect, calling 
> attention to the exceptional status.  Make it a text column and write 
> "overflow" or "###" as appropriate.  Anyone using the column is going to end 
> up wanting to special-case overflow anyway and number-to-text conversion 
> aside from overflow is simple enough if a number, and not just a display 
> label, is needed.

+1, if we are interested to add only one column then this could be the
best way to show.


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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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