| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | rudolphfroger(at)dreamsolution(dot)nl, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Rounding strategy |
| Date: | 2021-04-19 15:37:14 |
| Message-ID: | 40dea1e0254dc00213f0dd10afa5e668abf0d020.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 08:00 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-math.html
> Description:
>
> The 'round' mathematical function documentation doesn't specify its rounding
> strategy. If this would be documented then users can rely on its rounding
> behavior. For double precision the rounding probably depends on your
> platform. For numeric the function seems to round to nearest with ties going
> away from zero (sometimes referred to as "round half up). 6.5 -> 7.0 and
> -6.5 -> -7.0.
+1
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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