[postgis-users] Overflow on length field during insert

[strk]

warmerdam wrote:
> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > I'm inserting some shapes using ogr2ogr and getting an interesting 
> > error.  Here's my syntax and error message:
> > 
> > ERROR 1: INSERT command for new feature failed.
> > ERROR:  overflow on numeric ABS(value) >= 10^2 for field with precision 
> > 13 scale 11
>
> Tyler,
> 
> This is a "bug" in OGR, so you may report it in the OGR bugzilla if you wish.

I think the same bug shown up some weeks ago in shapelib.
My "woarkaround" then was to just "omit" the precision, but
if this is really a bug I'd like to have shp2pgsql go back
to its original behaviour (rely on shapelib to specify 
a precision for the numeric type).

Please let me know it something will change about this.

--strk;