Re: Record variable not behaving as expected (bug?) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Sorry, here's the code:

CREATE TABLE table2 (
 "s_val" NUMERIC(6,2),
 "e_val" NUMERIC(6,2)
);

CREATE FUNCTION divide () RETURNS numeric AS
$body$
declare
  retval numeric(6,2);
  rec record;
begin
  SELECT * INTO rec FROM test.table2 LIMIT 0;
  rec.s_val = 100.0;
  rec.e_val = 101.0;

  -- returns correct value w/ casting:
  --retval = ((rec.s_val::numeric(6,2) - rec.e_val::numeric(6,2)) /
rec.s_val::numeric(6,2)) * 100;

  -- returns incorrect value, as if fields have invalid datatypes:
  retval = ((rec.s_val - rec.e_val) / rec.s_val) * 100;

  return retval;
end
$body$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

On Nov 30, 2007 12:31 PM, Postgres User <postgres.developer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, I'd be glad to provide any additional code or info that I can.
> This issue took me quite awhile to track down from the 200-line
> function that was breaking.
>
> When I execute the function defined above, here's the output:
>
> select divide()
>        ?column?
> ------------------------
>  0
>
> > Seems rather unlikely to affect just windows. Can you post a script
> > that you can run against a blank database that shows the problem.
> > complete with output on your machine.