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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 07:50:52 -0800
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
From: "Ken J. Wright" <ken@ori-ind.com>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] problem with numeric
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
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At 22:29 02/01/2000 -0500, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
>
>"Ken J. Wright" wrote:
>> 
>> v6.5.3
>> 
>> While testing the new ODBC driver I ran into the following problem with
>> queries on numeric fields. Unless the values are surrounded by single quote
>> marks, the query fails with the message: Unable to identify an operator '='
>> for types 'numeric' and 'float'. This occurs in the WHERE clause of the
>> query.
>> 
>> SELECT * from tbl WHERE numfld = 99.125;
>> UPDATE tbl SET numfld = 99.13 WHERE numfld = 99.125;
>> 
>> An INSERT works fine.
>> 
>> These statements execute ok on float fields, but not numeric. This happens
>> via ODBC and also with psql from a Linux console.
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> ************
>
>
>An updated odbc driver is available that fixes this at:
>
>ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/index.html

Yes Byron, both Access & the BDE like this ;-)

Thanks,

Ken