On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: > > 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. > > :: binds tighter than - (and everything else too). Write > (-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
