Re: floor function in 7.3b2

Added to TODO:

* Add floor(float8) and other missing functions

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mario Weilguni" <mario(dot)weilguni(at)icomedias(dot)com> writes:
> > I noticed that some of my queries don't work anymore because they're using
> > the floor function:
> > e.g.: select type, floor(date_part('epoch', dataend)) as ts from
> > last_modified
> > Why is floor not working anymore?
>
> Mph. Seems we have floor(numeric) but not floor(float8), and the latter
> is what you need here.
>
> You could cast date_part's result to numeric; or perhaps you could use
> trunc() which exists in both numeric and float8 flavors. It's got
> different semantics for negative inputs though.
>
> For 7.4 we should take another look at the operator/function set and
> fill in this hole and any others like it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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