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From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
To: radhika@88thstreet.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Floating point type to store numbers
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <504276.57905.qm@web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4838.63.118.86.10.1176836034.squirrel@www.88thstreet.com>


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> The question is: how accurate is floating point numbers in Postgres. We
> are using 7.4 soon to be moving to 8.2.
> I need the accuracy to about 6 decimal points. I have read that floating
> points can convert to numbers in accurately.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-FLOAT

I didn't see anything about numeric being a string type,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

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