Thread: float to int

float to int

From
"Charles.Hou"
Date:
how can i get the int value using the sql language? like this,

"select cost from my_money_table " , the data type of cost is float.


Re: float to int

From
Edoardo Panfili
Date:
Charles.Hou ha scritto:
> how can i get the int value using the sql language? like this,
>
> "select cost from my_money_table " , the data type of cost is float.
>
take a look at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-expressions.html
CAST ( expression AS type )
expression::type

Edoardo


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Re: float to int

From
Lew
Date:
Edoardo Panfili wrote:
> Charles.Hou ha scritto:
>> how can i get the int value using the sql language? like this,
>>
>> "select cost from my_money_table " , the data type of cost is float.
>>
> take a look at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-expressions.html
> CAST ( expression AS type )
> expression::type

Incidentally, float is about the worst data type to represent monetary amounts
that one can choose.

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