I believe the standard way is
CAST(1.1 as numeric)
But the following should also work:
1.1::numeric
Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, g wrote:
> I need to know how to cast types. Here's my basic problem:
> I'm trying to:
>
> update products set list_price = gsa_price * 1.1 where list_price =
> gsa_price;
>
> The error I get back is:
>
> ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '*' for types 'numeric' and
> 'float8' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>
> So, I'm assuming that I need to cast the value 1.1 as a numeric so that I
> will be multiplying a numeric times a numeric.
>
> Then I realized I had no idea what the syntax to do the cast was.
