Re: POWER vs. POW ???

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Also, POW() is not documented here:

I think POW is just there for backward compatibility and people should
use POWER().

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> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-math.html
> 
> Chris
> 
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > How come these give slightly different results?
> > 
> > test=# SELECT POW(2,-2);
> >  pow
> > ------
> >  0.25
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > test=# SELECT POWER(2,-2);
> >  power
> > -------
> >   0.25
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > 
> > (Note width of result field.)
> > 
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