Re: How to increase precision?

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Katka a Daniel Dunajsky wrote:

> this is a newbie question:
>
> How to increase the precision of calculations in posgresql?
>
> When I run this query:
>
> select 5/2;
>
> I get:
>
> ?column?
> --------
>        2
>
> It should be 2.5 shouldn't it?

It's doing integer division since both arguments are integers. You'll need
to make one of them something like float, double or numeric.

For example, queries like:

select 5./2;
select 5/cast(2 as float);

etc... don't do integer division because one of
the arguments isn't typed as an integer type.