Alex wrote:
> I have a database with some float numbers (all of them are 2 digits
> presision). When I do select sum() I get this: 96.3100000000001
> ...
> Is this bug or future ?
A feature. Floating point numbers can't generally represent a decimal
number exactly, so you get some rounding errors. Usually the errors are
small enough that they don't show up, but sometimes they do, like in
this example. I would recommend using NUMERIC instead of floats for
anything where the input data is in decimal format.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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