Re: Division in Postgre - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Division in Postgre
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Msg-id 20050429205407.B60676@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Division in Postgre  ("tuan" <atuan_h@hotmail.com>)
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, tuan wrote:

> In sql server my division select cast(3 as float)/10 is 0.29999999999.
> But in postgres select cast(3 as float8)/10 is 0.3. How to get result like
> sql server?

I believe you can control what precision is used in printing the float
results with extra_float_digits. I believe setting it to 2 will give a
0.29... result however it has more 9s than the above.



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