Bug?

I'm currently back to work with version 6.2.1 since I cannot connect with
6.3 via ODBC.

Anyway, I got my application running after finding a problem (inside the
app) with data conversion (it read double from a long data field). But it
seems I also encountered what I believe to be a bug. Since I'm nor sure
whether it's known I bring it up here. If I try to insert 199802051215 to a
float8 field it doesn't work because the parser believes this is a long and
truncates it to 2147...... Using 199802051215.0 to make sure it's a float
works fine. Shouldn't the parser be able to handle this?

Michael
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