title: ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for this column
body: <p>We get sometimes the following error from our partner's database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;i&gt;ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for this column&lt;/i&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The full response looks like the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?&gt;
  &lt;response&gt;
    &lt;status_code&gt;&lt;/status_code&gt;
    &lt;error_text&gt;ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for this column ORA-06512: at &amp;quot;UMAIN.PAY_NET_V1_PKG&amp;quot;, line 176 ORA-06512: at line 1&lt;/error_text&gt;
    &lt;pay_id&gt;5592988&lt;/pay_id&gt;
    &lt;time_stamp&gt;&lt;/time_stamp&gt;
  &lt;/response&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What can be the cause for this error?</p>