Re: POWER vs. POW ???

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:00:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> How come these give slightly different results?
>
> test=# SELECT POW(2,-2);
> pow
> ------
> 0.25
> (1 row)
>
> test=# SELECT POWER(2,-2);
> power
> -------
> 0.25
> (1 row)
>
>
> (Note width of result field.)

The result field is the length of min(the string, printable result) + 2:

# SELECT POW(2,-2);
pow
------
0.25
(1 row)

# SELECT POW(2,-2) as power;
power
-------
0.25
(1 row)

# SELECT POW(2,-2) as p;
p
------
0.25
(1 row)

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