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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Rounding strategy
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:37:14 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 08:00 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-math.html
> Description:
> 
> 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.

+1

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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