On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's surprising enough that it might be worth generating a warning if the typecasting operator is used on a mathmatical _expression_--"a - b::int4"--rather than a single value (eg. "(a - b)::int4" or "f()::int4"). I don't know the grammar to know if that fits.
-- Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes::: binds tighter than - (and everything else too). ÂWrite
> Actually, those lower bound errors aren't related to generate_series,
> but I'd still like to know why -2147483648::int4 is out of range.
(-2147483648)::int4 instead.
That's surprising enough that it might be worth generating a warning if the typecasting operator is used on a mathmatical _expression_--"a - b::int4"--rather than a single value (eg. "(a - b)::int4" or "f()::int4"). I don't know the grammar to know if that fits.
Glenn Maynard
