Re: division by zero issue

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Greg Donald" <destiney(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: division by zero issue
Date: 2004-09-15 18:42:24
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE475CAA@algol.sollentuna.se
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> Thanks, you guys are so helpful.
>
> This works great on my workstation with 7.4.5. But what's
> the 7.2 way of doing it? Our production server is a bit older.
>
> I also tried Mr Fraser's suggestion:
>
> SELECT
> tasks.task_id,
> CASE
> WHEN task_count = '0'
> THEN '0'::int4
> ELSE (task_duration * task_duration_type / task_count) as
> hours_allocated
> END
> FROM
> (
> SELECT
> FROM tasks
> LEFT JOIN user_tasks
> ON tasks.task_id = user_tasks.task_id
> WHERE tasks.task_milestone = '0'
> GROUP BY
> tasks.task_id,
> task_duration,
> task_duration_type
> ) as intermediate;
>
> but it's producing an error near the AS for some reason I can't tell.
> I tried wrapping it with some parentheses but it didn't help.

You're missing an END:

> SELECT
> tasks.task_id,
> CASE
> WHEN task_count = '0'
> THEN '0'::int4
> ELSE (task_duration * task_duration_type / task_count) END as
^^^^^^^

> hours_allocated
> END
> FROM
...

//Magnus

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