I have a Firebird 2.0 database running on Linux. I've created a table
that looks like this

create table people (
wealth double precision
)

I'm then trying to run the following insert

insert into people (wealth) values (12345678901234567890.0123456789)

I get the following error

Invalid token.
Dynamic SQL Error.
SQL error code = -104.
Token unknown - line 1, char 37.
1.

Looking through the Firebird book, the section on double precision
says that it should support values in the range -1.797e+308 to
1.797e+308 so it seems like my number in my insert statement should
fit into this criteria. Am I doing something wrong? One more strange
thing, if I reduce the number in my insert statement to a number that
has a precision of 18 then it will insert. 18 is also the limit for a
numeric/decimal field. This seems like an odd coincidence. Can anyone
provide some insight into this?

Thanks,
Scott Knight