| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Sim Zacks <sim(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Sandy Oz <alexandra(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il> |
| Subject: | Re: numeric cast oddity |
| Date: | 2009-12-03 16:04:02 |
| Message-ID: | 9802.1259856242@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Really? Your example doesn't seem to show that.
> I think he's talking about the headers
The headers I get are
regression=# select -1::numeric(20,4);
?column?
----------
-1.0000
(1 row)
regression=# select cast(-1 as numeric(20,4));
numeric
---------
-1.0000
(1 row)
which are indeed different (might be worth looking into why) but
don't seem to have anything to do with scale/precision.
regards, tom lane
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