Well, it would've immediately (rather than the several minutes it took)
given away the problem if it read something like:
ERROR: overflow caused by cast of double precision value to numeric
without sufficient precision, scale (15, 6)
or even, depending on how much detail is available or how mu
Indeed, it seems as though my inability to count digits was the real
problem. Still, does this not strike anyone as a somewhat abstruse error
message?
-tfo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Szabo) wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Thomas O'Connell wrote:
>
> > is this exp
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Thomas O'Connell wrote:
> is this expected behavior? if so, then why?
I'd guess so if the timestamp value's integer part is
10 digits long since I believe trying to fit that into
a numeric(15,6) wouldn't work (9 digits . 6 digits).
> db=# create table foo( col timestamp );
>
