Improve error message when NUMERIC precision is exceeded.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
index fb2e16ee53fca52513b1d3b3fc404520d58f171e..dcc9a7d6836fcb391832ed1dbfc77bd46ac3af9d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 1998-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c,v 1.88 2005/11/22 18:17:23 momjian Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c,v 1.89 2006/01/25 17:54:14 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -3206,8 +3206,8 @@ apply_typmod(NumericVar *var, int32 typmod)
                    ereport(ERROR,
                            (errcode(ERRCODE_NUMERIC_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE),
                             errmsg("numeric field overflow"),
-                            errdetail("The absolute value is greater than or equal to 10^%d for field with precision %d, scale %d.",
-                                      ddigits - 1, precision, scale)));
+                            errdetail("A field with precision %d, scale %d must have an absolute value less than 10^%d.",
+                                      precision, scale, maxdigits)));
                break;
            }
            ddigits -= DEC_DIGITS;