Re: Calling functions with numeric parameters

On 15/09/2004 13:01 Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a plpgsql function that takes a numeric parameter. It is for a
> price in a table. The table has the price declared as numeric(10,2), and
> the function parameter is just numeric. However in Java I have the price
> represented as a double.
>
> Using jdbc setDouble for a parameter for the function causes causes an
> ERROR saying that the function taking a double precision parameter does
> not exist (which is obviously correct).
>
> What do other people do?
>
> Is there a way to pass a numeric parameter through JDBC?
> Should the parameter to the function be a double which is the "cast"
> into the numeric inside the function?
>
> Your ideas are welcome.

I've not tried it myself but BigDecimal seems to the one to use.

HTH

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