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Re: How to define the limit length for numeric type?

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Hello

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> From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of vod vos
> Sent: Montag, 13. März 2017 15:52
> To: rob stone <floriparob@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  How to define the limit length for numeric type?
> 
> Sorry for taking varchar(4) as an example, What I want urgently is how to make a constraint of fixed length of a
> numeric data, that you can only input data like 23.45,  and if you input the data like 2.45, 23.4356, 233.45, you
> will get a warning message from postgresql.
> 
> I think expr will do the job, but are there any simpler ways to do it in postgresql?

Well, I don't think that you will find anything simpler than using a regexp in a check constraint, as Tom and I did suggest.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15358.1489336741%40sss.pgh.pa.us
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/040301d29b01%2443d71f50%24cb855df0%24%40swisspug.org

I have some trouble understanding what you find so complicated in that solution?

Bye
Charles

> 
> 
>  ---- On 星期日, 12 三月 2017 14:28:53 -0700 rob stone <floriparob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ----  > Hello,  >  > On Sat, 2017-
> 03-11 at 22:14 -0800, vod vos wrote:
>  > > Hi everyone,
>  > >
>  > > How to define the exact limit length of numeric type? For example,  > >  > > CREATE TABLE test  (id serial,
> goose numeric(4,1));  > >  > > 300.2 and 30.2 can be inserted into COLUMN goose, but I want 30.2 or  > > 3.2 can not
> be inserted, how to do this?
>  > >
>  > > Thank you.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  > Assuming that column goose may only contain values ranging from 100.0  > to 999.9, then a check constraint along
> the lines of:-  >  > goose > 99.9 and < 1000  >  > should do the trick.
>  >
>  > HTH,
>  > Rob
>  >
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