From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: tuan <atuan_h@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Division in Postgre
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20050429205407.B60676@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY12-DAV1034161CFA2DABEF05BE2A972F0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY12-DAV1034161CFA2DABEF05BE2A972F0@phx.gbl>
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, tuan wrote:
> In sql server my division select cast(3 as float)/10 is 0.29999999999.
> But in postgres select cast(3 as float8)/10 is 0.3. How to get result like
> sql server?
I believe you can control what precision is used in printing the float
results with extra_float_digits. I believe setting it to 2 will give a
0.29... result however it has more 9s than the above.
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