Re: [GENERAL] decimal(9.2) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hans Peter Würmli wrote:

> Try:
>
> dbhpw=> create table therbert (num numeric(9,2));

Is not working. I got the following error:

db=> create table therbert (num numeric(9,2));
ERROR:  NUMERIC scale 2 must be zero

I use PostgreSQL 6.4.0 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.6

Any other hints?

> On 25-Jun-99 Herbert Liechti wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > How do I define the datatype decimal(9.2). I searched the documentation
> > but the only thing I found was the money data type which is in my case
> > not very usefull.
> >
> > Is there a way to declare a datatype with 2 decimal places and with a fixed
> > precision? Thanks for your help
>

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