unsigned int4

Started by Scott M Jacksonabout 26 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Scott M Jackson
scottmo@pnl.gov

I looked in the FAQs, lists, docs, etc but couldn't find an answer to my
question.
Is there a way to specify an unsigned int, such that it would create an
ERROR condition if a transaction
were to attempt to cause a particular value to go negative. This would
be very useful to me.
I would like to be able to use the automatic rollback feature of WORK
blocks if a debit is generated that would
subtract more than it's positive balance. I feel this would be helpful
due to the concurrent nature of our bank
application.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Scott Jackson (Scott.Jackson@pnl.gov)

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Scott M Jackson (#1)
Re: unsigned int4

I looked in the FAQs, lists, docs, etc but couldn't find an answer to my
question.
Is there a way to specify an unsigned int, such that it would create an
ERROR condition if a transaction
were to attempt to cause a particular value to go negative. This would
be very useful to me.
I would like to be able to use the automatic rollback feature of WORK
blocks if a debit is generated that would
subtract more than it's positive balance. I feel this would be helpful
due to the concurrent nature of our bank
application.

Oid should be unsigned int. Not sure it is completely implemented, but
it should be.

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#3Peter Eisentraut
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In reply to: Scott M Jackson (#1)
Re: unsigned int4

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Scott M Jackson wrote:

Is there a way to specify an unsigned int, such that it would create
an ERROR condition if a transaction were to attempt to cause a
particular value to go negative.

CREATE TABLE... (
...
colname INTEGER CHECK (colname > 0)
...
);

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