From: manchicken <manchicken@notsosoft.net>
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To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: simple SQL question
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:09:27 -0500
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On Monday 25 June 2007 10:19:49 Fernando Hevia wrote:
> > > I have a column with the following values (example below)
> > >
> > > 5673
> > > 4731
> > > 4462
> > > 5422
> > > 756
> > > 3060
> > >
> > > I want the column to display the numbers as follows:
> > >
> > > 56.73
> > > 47.31
> > > 44.62
> > > 54.22
> > > 7.56
> > > 30.60
> > >
> > > I have been playing around with string functions but cannot seem to
> > > figure out a quick solution. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Don't use to_char unless you actually want character data though.
> >
> > Just try this...
> >
> > SELECT (column/100) FROM table;
>
> Cast the column in order to get the decimal part:
>
> SELECT (column::real/100) FROM table;
>
>
>
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Good point.  Thanks for the catch :)

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