# File lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb, line 1088 def type_to_sql(type, limit = nil, precision = nil, scale = nil) case type.to_s when 'binary' # PostgreSQL doesn't support limits on binary (bytea) columns. # The hard limit is 1Gb, because of a 32-bit size field, and TOAST. case limit when nil, 0..0x3fffffff; super(type) else raise(ActiveRecordError, "No binary type has byte size #{limit}.") end when 'integer' return 'integer' unless limit case limit when 1, 2; 'smallint' when 3, 4; 'integer' when 5..8; 'bigint' else raise(ActiveRecordError, "No integer type has byte size #{limit}. Use a numeric with precision 0 instead.") end else super end end