About PostgreSQL's limit on arithmetic operations

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Hi,

We were performing some tests on PostgreSQL and found that it fails on the
following query:

SELECT 512*18014398509481984 AS result;

and the result is:

         result
- ----------------------
  -9223372036854775808

It should be 9223372036854775808... This is PostgreSQL 7.4.5 on Fedora
Core 2.

We tested the same query on some other database servers:

Oracle 9 ias r2 : 9,22337203685478E18
Oracle 9i WinXP, 32 bit : 9223372036854775808
Oracle 9.2.0.3 on  Redhat 9 : 9223372036854775808
Oracle 9.2.0.3 on Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 : 9223372036854775808
MS-SQL Server 2000 : 9223372036854775808
MySQL on Sun Solaris 6 : -9223372036854775808
MySQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 : -9223372036854775808

It seems that MySQL and PostgreSQL fails on this query. Is this a bug, or
a lack of something?

... or is there a limit?

Regards,
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Devrim GUNDUZ
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