Re: cant delete row

Tom Lane wrote:
  >"Tamsin" <tg_mail@bryncadfan.co.uk> writes:
  >> test=# delete from order_head where order_head_id = 1581;
  >> ERROR:  overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^9 for field with precision 8
  >> scale 2
  >
  >This is extremely bizarre.  A DELETE does not care what data is in the
  >row.  Do you perhaps have rules or triggers on this table that you
  >haven't told us about?

But surely the WHERE clause on this DELETE will care?  I don't know
how the internal details are arranged, but it sounds as though it is
the comparison that is blowing up.

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