From: | Martin Mueller <martinmueller(at)northwestern(dot)edu> |
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To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: simple division |
Date: | 2018-12-04 20:57:25 |
Message-ID: | 8B35EF9C-8DEF-4298-A646-89D1AC8F63E1@northwestern.edu |
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I didn't formulate my question properly, because the query went like
"select alldefects /wordcount"
where alldefects and wordcount are integers. But none of the different ways of putting the double colon seemed to work.
The Postgres notation of this simple procedure is very unintuitive. I haven't been able to remember several times, and most people think of me as a person with a reasonably good memory. There is no obvious place in the documentation to look this up.
On 12/4/18, 2:45 PM, "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:38 PM Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> I may be misunderstanding the question but:
Indeed...
> select cast(x/y as numeric(10,4));
Your answer is 2.0 instead of the correct 2.5 - you need to cast
before the division, not after.
David J.
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