Re: How to handle 'not a number' in postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: How to handle 'not a number' in postgresql
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Msg-id 20080104142946.GB32055@svana.org
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In response to How to handle 'not a number' in postgresql  (thereverandpdawg <reverandpdawg@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:22:03AM -0800, thereverandpdawg wrote:
> I have some field data which comes off of a data logger. In some cases
> the data is out of bounds of logger or instrumentation. In which case
> it is reported as 'NaN' for 'not a number.'
>
> Is there such a value in postgresql? If not I will have to hack it in
> with a boolean and would rather not do so.

Did you try it?

# select 'nan'::float;
 float8
--------
    NaN
(1 row)

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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