Re: Rounding to even for numeric data type

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rounding to even for numeric data type
Date: 2015-05-09 13:17:19
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQb41oyYPiHi6gtqVq06pWyx3negQs-h01-ud-2Ro10Jw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> Quick review: patches applies, make check is fine, all is well.

Thanks for the feedback, Fabien!

> All the casting tests could be put in "numeric.sql", as there are all
> related to numeric and that would avoid duplicating the values lists.

Not sure about that, the tests are placed here to be consistent with
for is done for float8.

> For the documentation, I would also add 3.5 so that rounding to even is even
> clearer:-)

Good idea. I reworked the example in the docs.
--
Michael

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