Re: How to increase precision?

It's assuming INTs and doing int division. Make one a numeric/real or
explicitly cast:

steve=# select 5/2;?column?
----------       2
(1 row)

steve=# select 5./2;?column?
----------     2.5
(1 row)

Cheers,
Steve



On Friday 02 May 2003 2:38 pm, Katka a Daniel Dunajsky wrote:
> 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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