On 2021-Jul-29, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/datatype-numeric.html says that the range
> of a numeric type integer is -2147483648 to +2147483647 but
> PGTYPESnumeric_to_int considers -2147483648 (a perfectly valid 32-bit
> integer) to be invalid because it compares to -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN or
> (-INT_MAX - 1). This goes back to the initial commit in the git repo for
> src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/numeric.c. And doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
> documents the min being -INT_MAX.
This sounds like an ECPG bug, not a documentation problem.
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