Re: any plans to support more rounding methods in sql?

On 25 January 2012 05:41, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> 2012/1/25 raf <raf@raf.org>:
>> hi,
>>
>> i just needed to round some numbers down to 4 decimal places but a quick search
>> indicated that postgresql doesn't support all of the rounding methods so i had
>> to write this dreadful function:

Are you talking about always rounding down to the lower
smallest-possible-increment, rather than following standard rules for
rounding? That isn't such an esoteric use case - I believe that
financial regulations in some jurisdictions require just that when
calculating interest, for example.

If you require exactly 4 digits of precision, it's possible to use this syntax:

NUMERIC(precision, scale)

That isn't going to affect the rounding behaviour though.

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