> Greetings,
>
> Well, it seems that the numeric issue I was having has nothing to do with
> the precision and scale being set the same, it has to do with the input
> data. The precision has to be at least 2 greater than the biggest number
> you need to enter, i.e.
>
> equinox=# create table test ( d numeric(4,2) );
> CREATE
> equinox=# insert into test values(10);
> INSERT 167844 1
> equinox=# insert into test values(101);
> ERROR: overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^2 for field with precision 4
> scale 2
The variable above is 4 digits, with 2 digits to the right of the
decimal place. Doing numberic(3,3) allows insertion of 0.4, but not
4.0. This is expected.
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