| From: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Michael Paquier *EXTERN*" <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, James Cloos <cloos(at)jhcloos(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Rounding to even for numeric data type |
| Date: | 2015-03-30 08:27:49 |
| Message-ID: | A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B365C6094@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Michael Paquier wrote:
> Well, I am not sure about that... But reading this thread changing the
> default rounding sounds unwelcome. So it may be better to just put in
> words the rounding method used now in the docs, with perhaps a mention
> that this is not completely in-line with the SQL spec if that's not
> the case.
The SQL standard does not care, it says that numbers and other data types
should, whenever necessary, be rounded or truncated in an implementation-
defined fashion.
I cannot find any mention of a round() function.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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