Re: simple division

On 12/4/18 12:29 PM, Martin Mueller wrote:
>
> I have asked this question before and apologize for not remembering
> it. How do you do simple division in postgres and get 10/4 with decimals?
>
> This involves cast and numeric in odd ways that are not well explained
> in the documentation. For instance, you’d expect an example in the
> Mathematical Functions. But there isn’t.
>
> The documentation of string functions is exemplary. The documentation
> of mathematical less so. Remember that it may be used by folks like me
> whose math is shaky. The MySQL documentation is better on this simple
> operation.
>
I may be misunderstanding the question but:

select cast(x/y as numeric(10,4));

JD

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> Martin Mueller
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> Northwestern University
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