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* set decimal point in SQL
@ 2003-06-16 22:02 Bu, Ning <NBU@pcgus.com>
  2003-06-18 19:02 ` Re: set decimal point in SQL Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>
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From: Bu, Ning @ 2003-06-16 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

 
 
 
I have a field set up as money and I try to calculate some number and put in
this field, but the number will be 6 demical point and I want to cut it to
only 2-4 decimal point, how can I do it? Thanks

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* Re: set decimal point in SQL
  2003-06-16 22:02 set decimal point in SQL Bu, Ning <NBU@pcgus.com>
@ 2003-06-18 19:02 ` Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>
  2003-06-18 19:13   ` Re: set decimal point in SQL Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Rodger Donaldson @ 2003-06-18 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:02:34PM -0500, Bu, Ning wrote:

> I have a field set up as money and I try to calculate some number
> and put in this field, but the number will be 6 demical point and I
> want to cut it to only 2-4 decimal point, how can I do it? Thanks

round(); eg

select	round(foo, 2)
from	bar

...will give you values in column foo rounded to 2 decimal places.

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* Re: set decimal point in SQL
  2003-06-16 22:02 set decimal point in SQL Bu, Ning <NBU@pcgus.com>
  2003-06-18 19:02 ` Re: set decimal point in SQL Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>
@ 2003-06-18 19:13   ` Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Jeff Eckermann @ 2003-06-18 19:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz; pgsql-sql

--- Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:02:34PM -0500, Bu, Ning
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a field set up as money and I try to
> calculate some number
> > and put in this field, but the number will be 6
> demical point and I
> > want to cut it to only 2-4 decimal point, how can
> I do it? Thanks
> 
> round(); eg
> 
> select	round(foo, 2)
> from	bar
> 
> ...will give you values in column foo rounded to 2
> decimal places.
> 

If you use "numeric(x,2)", where x is the largest
number of digits you are likely to need, the rounding
will be done for you.  Type "money" is deprecated
anyway, and is likely to be dropped in a future
release.  You can format the numeric value on output
if you want to display currency symbols or whatever.

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