Re: Decimal values in

Masterprojekt Naumann1 escribió:
> Dear Dev-List,
> 
> inside execProcnode.c's ExecProcNode method we want to extract the value of
> a tuple for a specific attribute. This works great for integers and
> strings, but we are not able to figure out how to do this for floating
> point numbers. Below is some example code snippet to show our problem:

"DECIMAL_OID" (you probably mean NUMERICOID) points to datatype numeric,
which is not floating point but a variable length datatype with its own
special encoding for storage.  If you want floating point you need
FLOAT4OID and FLOAT8OID, and columns created with types float and
"double precision", respectively.

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