Bob Dusek <bobd@palaver.net> wrote:
> How would I go about converting a value of type 'float8' to a value
> of type 'int'? It's probably not possible to do a straight
> conversion of a float to an int, but is there a truncate, or a
> rounding function that I could use? I couldn't find such a thing in
> my search.
in a table/class `tbl' with an float attribute `fl' of my 6.3.2 database,
the following works:
select cast(fl as int4) from tbl;
Hope it helps!
Ulf
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