Re: [HACKERS] Bug?

From: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de (Meskes, Michael)
Cc: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug?
Date: 1998-02-05 16:16:01
Message-ID: m0y0Ty6-000BFRC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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>
> Is there a way to explicitely tell the parser which kind of variable we
> want? That is something like float(1) to get 1.0.

'1'::float8

>
> It's obviously easier in Oracle (where my source came from) since they
> only have one number type. But expclicitely converting would be okay
> IMO.
>
> Michael
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Until later, Jan

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