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* datatype conversion on postgresql 7.4.1
@ 2005-05-22 11:29 Timo Roessner <timo.roessner@gmx.net>
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From: Timo Roessner @ 2005-05-22 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
hi everybody,
i got the following problem:
i have a database running on a postgresqlserver version 7.4.1, in the
database is a table with 4 columns containing
float-numbers. what i want to do now is, to convert the type of those
columns from float to numeric, because
i want to limit the positions after the decimal point to 2.
what works fine in v. 8:
either
alter table fragment alter column x type numeric(15,2)
or
update fragment set x = round(x,2)
but both wont work with version 7.4.1!
when i look into the documentation it seems to say that in 7.4.1 round()
can only round to a given number of positions after the decimal point
when used with a numeric type, but not with floats!
and if i try something like:
alter table fragment alter column x type numeric(15,2)
i get an syntax error, so this seems to be no feature in 7.4.1 (didnt
find anything like that in the docs too....)
what can i do to solve this? there must be some way in postgresql 7.4.1,
if there is no way to do that, i have to
build up the whole database from scratch........there must be a way to
convert float to numeric values in 7.4.1 ,
but i dont have a single clue...
thx for any help in advance
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* Re: datatype conversion on postgresql 7.4.1
@ 2005-05-24 07:45 Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
parent: Timo Roessner <timo.roessner@gmx.net>
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From: Richard Huxton @ 2005-05-24 07:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timo Roessner <timo.roessner@gmx.net>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Timo Roessner wrote:
> and if i try something like:
>
> alter table fragment alter column x type numeric(15,2)
>
> i get an syntax error, so this seems to be no feature in 7.4.1 (didnt
> find anything like that in the docs too....)
>
> what can i do to solve this? there must be some way in postgresql 7.4.1,
> if there is no way to do that, i have to
> build up the whole database from scratch........there must be a way to
> convert float to numeric values in 7.4.1 ,
> but i dont have a single clue...
There isn't a way to directly convert the type of a column in 7.4.x but
you can duplicate the effect.
BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE fragment RENAME COLUMN x TO old_x;
ALTER TABLE fragment ADD COLUMN x numeric(10,2);
UPDATE fragment SET x = old_x;
ALTER TABLE fragment DROP COLUMN old_x;
COMMIT;
Make sure you check any functions/application code that might be
expecting floating-point rather than numeric before you do this.
Oh, and upgrade from 7.4.1 to 7.4.7 as soon as possible.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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