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From: patrick s. <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [webmaster] Documentation Error: Ceiling, Floor
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 17:36:00 +0200
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Thanks, Tom.

Can confirm this. My error was that examples for "round" are using 
positive values and examples of "ceiling"/"floor" are using negative 
ones. Maybe misleading on a fast look.

Sorry for wasting your time, guys!

Patrick



On 03.05.2016 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ trimming 100%-inappropriate crossposts ]
>
>> On May 3, 2016, at 5:00 AM, patrick s. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> documentation is misleading:
>>> select ceiling(43.8); =>43
>>> select floor(43.8); =>44
>>>
>>> found in:
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-math.html
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-math.html
> AFAICS, those examples refer to -43.8 not 43.8, and are quite correct.
>
> 			regards, tom lane



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