Re: [SQL] upcasting multiplication in a query

2003-03-17 Thread Tom Lane
"John Guthrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > select (seconds*100)+micros from my_table; > but it looks to me like postgresql puts the rresult into another int4 (since > i am getting negative numbers, i assume overflow). how can i get it to use > int8? Cast the constant to int8.

Re: [SQL] upcasting multiplication in a query

2003-03-17 Thread dev
> i have a schema that stores timestamps in seconds/microseconds format. > each > column in the table is int4. what i want to do is to compute the int8 > value > of total microseconds, a la: > select (seconds*100)+micros from my_table; > but it looks to me like postgresql puts the rresult int