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From: Katka a Daniel Dunajsky <daniel_katka@hotmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: How to increase precision?
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 15:38:21 -0600
Message-ID: <Law12-F72YKpDS7hx2700007b3c@hotmail.com> (raw)

Hello all,

this is a newbie question:

How to increase the precision of calculations in posgresql?

When I run this query:

select 5/2;

I get:

?column?
--------
       2

It should be 2.5 shouldn't it?

Thank you for your time.

Daniel






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