| From: | "Graeme Merrall" <gmerrall(at)email(dot)com> | 
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| To: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | round() and || | 
| Date: | 2000-01-20 02:42:56 | 
| Message-ID: | 000f01bf62f0$0ebfff00$899d60cb@inspire.net.nz | 
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Hi.
I'm having a lot of trouble concatenating some fields along witha rounded number. services_cost is a float field field and I want to convert it to 2 decimal places so it appears as money. I could store it as money but mathematical operations are performed on the same field further down the line so I don't want it 'pre-formatted'
SELECT round(services_cost,2) as test_field FROM services
works fine but 
SELECT round(services_cost,2)::text as test_field FROM services
as various other variations does not. 
The reason I need to do this is so join this field and a text field together
SELECT services_type || '|' || round(services_cost,2)  AS services_list FROM services;
but pgsql complains that it can't join a numeric plus a text field obviously. I'm pretty stuck on this one.
Cheers,
 Graeme
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