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decimal

From
"Aleš Vojáček"
Date:
Hi all,
I'm new in postress world,
I have one question exists any datatype like decimal (12,6) (123456789012.123456) in postgress?
sorry for my english
Ales

Re: [SQL] decimal

From
Jeff MacDonald
Date:
greetings,

you need the numeric type

ie

create table example(thisvaluse    numeric(12,6)
);

insert into table example values(012345678912.012345);


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ale� Voj��ek wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm new in postress world, 
> I have one question exists any datatype like decimal (12,6) (123456789012.123456) in postgress?
> sorry for my english
> Ales
> 

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Jeff MacDonaldjeff@hub.org    webpage: http://hub.org/~jeffjeff@pgsql.com    irc: bignose on EFnet
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Re: [SQL] decimal

From
Tom Lane
Date:
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Please don't use HTML in email...

Yes, there's a full decimal/numeric implementation in Postgres 6.5
and later.
        regards, tom lane