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SUM overflows — Vertica Forum

SUM overflows

Kris_PeetersKris_Peeters
in General Discussion
When using SUM() on a large table (1 billion rows), it overflows without warning me: dbadmin=> select SUM(sales) from schema.fact_table; SUM ----------------------- -8083921422909.855574 (1 row) dbadmin=> select SUM(CAST(sales as NUMERIC(30,8))) from schema.fact_table; SUM ------------------------- 10362822650799.69604200 (1 row) dbadmin=> The documentation says SUM should throw an error if that happens. Is this a bug? Or am I missing something?

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    This is indeed a bug. I've reported it to our development team. Thanks very much for your report.

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