BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range
Solution 1:
I recently ran into this and found the most reasonable solution to simply cast any UNSIGNED ints as SIGNED.
SELECT *, ((1 / log(1301980250 - cast(date as signed)) * 175) as weight FROM news_articles ORDER BY weight
Solution 2:
The problem was caused by unsigned integer overflow as suggested by wallyk. It can be solved by
- using
SELECT *, ((1 / log((date - 1301980250) * -1)) * 175) as weight FROM news_articles ORDER BY weight;
(This one worked for me) ` - Changing sql_mode parameter in my.cnf to
NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION
(haven't checked this)
Solution 3:
This can sometimes be caused by nulls in the data.
Use IFNULL to set a default value (probably 0 for a timestamp is a poor default and actually in this case you might be better off excluding and null dates in the WHERE clause)
SELECT (123456 - IFNULL(date, 0)) AS leVar