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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: tjo@acm.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL error: function round(double precision, integer) does not exist
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:30:11 -0800
Message-ID: <200502280930.11969.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4222570F.5080901@acm.org>
References: <4222570F.5080901@acm.org>

TJ,

> SQL error:
> ERROR:  function round(double precision, integer) does not exist

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-math.html
> show that round(numeric,int) should work ok.
> If I use round() without a second argument, it works OK, but
> this gives a loss of precision which I do not want.

NUMERIC and FLOAT are different data types.   Do:

round({value}::NUMERIC, {places})

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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