[postgis-devel] dbf attributes size

Markus Schaber schabi at logix-tt.com
Mon Oct 24 08:45:04 PDT 2005


Hi, Strk,

strk at refractions.net wrote:
>>So we get a cyle from int2->DBF_6->int4->DBF_11->int8->DBF_20->numeric.
> 
> Wait a second, there should be no loop in fact:
> 
> 	int2->DBF_6->int2

Well, when reading a DBF_6 you may get -99999 which cannot be saved into
an int2.

Markus



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