Re: Rounding strategy - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Rounding strategy
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Msg-id bc1b85d65c284e3aaa718eba5f43dd4b970ccf33.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Rounding strategy  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: Rounding strategy  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 08:00 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The 'round' mathematical function documentation doesn't specify its rounding
> strategy. If this would be documented then users can rely on its rounding
> behavior. For double precision the rounding probably depends on your
> platform. For numeric the function seems to round to nearest with ties going
> away from zero (sometimes referred to as "round half up). 6.5 -> 7.0 and
> -6.5 -> -7.0.

Here is a proposed patch.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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