I'm having a problem with any string that appears to be in scientific notation. For instance '557236406134e62000323100'.

The specific error is:

ActiveRecord::RangeError: PG::NumericValueOutOfRange: ERROR:  value overflows numeric format
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function logidze_logger() line 68 at assignment

Postgres version: 9.6

Edit: I have my suspicions that it is because of the to_jsonb method.

Returns the value as json or jsonb. Arrays and composites are converted (recursively) to arrays and objects; otherwise, if there is a cast from the type to json, the cast function will be used to perform the conversion; otherwise, a scalar value is produced. For any scalar type other than a number, a Boolean, or a null value, the text representation will be used, in such a fashion that it is a valid json or jsonb value.

I believe to_jsonb is erroneously attempting to typecast the string, could this be a bug in PG?