RE: [HACKERS] Numeric with '-'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hirt [mailto:bhirt@mobygames.com]
> 
> A strange thing I noticed with this is that
> 
> "select -234567890.1234567;" works and
> "select -1234567890.123456;" also works while
> "select -1234567890.1234567;" does not.  That
> extra character just seems to push things over
> the edge.
> 
> It almost seems like there is some sort of length
> restriction somewhere in the parser.
>

Currently numeric constants are FLOAT8 constants if the
the precision <= 17 otherwise string constants.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp