[Info-ingres] Weird phenominem: "<column> is too big, set to 100"

[Roy Hann]

Mark wrote:

> I have an embedded SQL program (C) which carries various selects,
> updates & deletes.  Normally it works fine but sometimes I see an
> message written to stdout saying "<column> is too big, set to 100'.
>
> Now <column> is an integer column and was previously set to 125.  Not
> too big IMHO.
>
> I realize I haven't given a lot of information but I could use some
> help figuring out the above message.  Our code cannot output this.

That's not an Ingres error message and you say it's not an application
error message. The only other place I can think to look is in a database
procedure.

  SELECT DISTINCT trim(procedure_owner)||'.'||trim(procedure_name)
  FROM iiprocedures
  WHERE text_segment LIKE '%too big, set to%'

Roy