Re: [GENERAL] SOLVED: Dividing Money - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gregory Maxwell
Subject Re: [GENERAL] SOLVED: Dividing Money
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.981202151513.29275A-100000@z.ml.org
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In response to SOLVED: Dividing Money  (Bob Dusek <bobd@palaver.net>)
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Yea, that's like the markup function I sent you.. :)

No one has said, by the way, WHY you can't devide money..


On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Bob Dusek wrote:

>
> Well,
>
> I've still not come up with a way of directly dividing money types, but
> here's what I came up with:
>
> select price, price * (1::float / 2::float) as halfofprice from
> item_money;
>
> It seems kind of kludgey, but.... my mind can do no better, at this point.
>
> Thanks for all the help on this one.
>
> 'til next time,
>
> Bob
>
>


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