Re: Counts and percentages and such - Mailing list pgsql-general

From jackassplus
Subject Re: Counts and percentages and such
Date
Msg-id 41ed94fb-1b9a-47e8-8803-8814ed604518@u8g2000prd.googlegroups.com
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In response to Counts and percentages and such  (jackassplus <jackassplus@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Counts and percentages and such  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Re: Counts and percentages and such  (Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>)
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> select coalesce(col,'Null'),
> (count(coalesce(col,'Null'))::numeric/(select count(*) from
> some_table))*100 from some_table group by col;
>  coalesce |        ?column?
> ----------+-------------------------
>  Null     | 13.33333333333333333300
>  N        | 20.00000000000000000000
>  A        | 26.66666666666666666700
>  L        | 40.00000000000000000000
>
> Note that it works, but we get long ugly numbers, and the column has
> no name (?column?).  Let's fix that:

What does ::numeric signify?
I'm using the jdbc driver from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/ in SQuirreL
and it asks me for the value of :numeric.


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