Re: create view with numeric data

Haven't tried it, but if you casted the result of the sum to 
numeric(9,2)? Btw: does the ELSE '0' really work? It seems a bit strange 
to put a string into a SUM...

cast ( sum(CASE WHEN month='01' THEN budgetvalue ELSE 0 END) as 
numeric(9,2)) AS january

Thomas


cio198 schrieb:
> Hello, 
> 
> i've created this table
> 
> CREATE TABLE "budget" (
>         "year" character varying NOT NULL,
>         "month" character varying NOT NULL,
>         "accountno" character varying NOT NULL,
>         "costid" character varying NOT NULL,
>         "valutacode" character varying,
>         "budgetvalue" numeric(9,2) DEFAULT '0',
>         "deptname" character varying,
>         Constraint "budget_pkey" Primary Key ("year", "month",
> "accountno", "costid")
> );
> 
> And I want to create the a view using query bellow.
> The problem is the numeric data in the view isn't limited to
> numeric(9,2) instead it become numeric(65535, 65531).
> Is there any way i can restrict it to numeric (9,2)
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> CREATE VIEW view_budget
> AS      SELECT b.year, b.accountno, a.name,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='01' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> january,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='02' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> february,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='03' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> march,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='04' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> april,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='05' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> may,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='06' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> june,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='07' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> july,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='08' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> august,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='09' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> september,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='10' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> october,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='11' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> november,
>         sum(CASE WHEN month='12' THEN budgetvalue ELSE '0' END) AS
> december,
>         sum(budgetvalue) as totalvalue
>         FROM budget b inner join account a on b.accountno=a.accountno
>         GROUP BY year, b.accountno, a.name
>         ORDER BY b.accountno;