Message-ID: <20030618191349.45141.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:13:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: set decimal point in SQL
To: rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
In-Reply-To: <20030618190216.GA549@diaspora.gen.nz>
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--- 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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