On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:11:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ! DETAIL: A field with precision 4, scale 4 must have an absolute value > > less than 1. > > [ becomes ] > > ! DETAIL: A field with precision 4, scale 4 must have an absolute value > > less than 1 - 5 * 10^-5. > > This strikes me as overly pedantic. The message needs to be clear, > and the proposed change will just confuse people.
It might, but the error that's currently in there is wrong. With the patch applied, you get: postgres=# SELECT .99995::NUMERIC(4,4); ERROR: numeric field overflow DETAIL: A field with precision 4, scale 4 must have an absolute value less than 1 - 5 * 10^-5. postgres=# SELECT .9999499999999999999999999999::NUMERIC(4,4); numeric --------- 0.9999 (1 row) I'd thought of changing it to the corresponding numeric piece, but this doesn't work so well for NUMERIC(16,8) and the like. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
