Thanks. I figured out the CAST later but didn't know the 1.1::numeric
syntax.
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Brian Knox
Senior Systems Engineer
brian@govshops.com
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 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.
>
