> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: 03 October 2004 20:39
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] Checking for overflow of integer arithmetic
>
> 2. For the int2 and int8 operators, should we stick to a
> one-size-fits-all message "integer out of range", or be more
> specific: "smallint out of range" and "bigint out of range"?
> The existing messages are not completely consistent about
> this. I'm inclined to go with mentioning the specific type
> but I'm not dead set on it.
I vote for being more specific. A little extra info can sometimes ease
debugging problems no matter how trivial it seems.
Regards, Dave.