Re: [GENERAL] casting float8 type

Thank you Ulf,

It works perfectly (so far :-)

Thanks a lot,

Bob

Ulf Mehlig wrote:
>
> Bob Dusek <bobd(at)palaver(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > How would I go about converting a value of type 'float8' to a value
> > of type 'int'? It's probably not possible to do a straight
> > conversion of a float to an int, but is there a truncate, or a
> > rounding function that I could use? I couldn't find such a thing in
> > my search.
>
> in a table/class `tbl' with an float attribute `fl' of my 6.3.2 database,
> the following works:
>
> select cast(fl as int4) from tbl;
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Ulf
>
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