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Bug in CREATE SEQUENCE x MAXVAL x parsing?

Metalstorm <metlstrm@ihug.co.nz> — 1999-12-01T02:39:56Z

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Your name               :       Adam Boileau
Your email address      :       metlstrm@ihug.co.nz


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)         :   Dual Intel P2

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)  :   Linux 2.2.10

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3):   PostgreSQL-6.5.3 

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)           :   gcc 2.95.1


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Creating a sequence whose maxvalue is > signed-4-byte-int-max generates
a parse error.
Inserting the same value into an int8 field works, however. 
Conclusion: create sequence doesnt parse > int4, but insert does.



Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 
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euclid=> create table test (Im_big int8);
CREATE

--Insert int4-max + 1
euclid=> insert into test values (2147483648);
INSERT 192329 1

--Create a sequence whose maxval is int4-max
euclid=> create sequence im_big_seq maxvalue 2147483647;
CREATE

--Hmm, works great.
euclid=> drop sequence im_big_seq;    
DROP

--Create a sequence whose maxval is int4-max + 1
euclid=> create sequence im_big_seq maxvalue 2147483648;
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "2147483648"
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "2147483648"

--No sir, I dont like it.