Comparison Operator problem

I was working on a small "lesson" at home last night when I encountered
a strange problem with both the greater-than and
greater-than-or-equal-to comparison operators.  Below are both the
description of the table I was running the query against, the one of the
queries that caused the problem, and the error message it produced.

<snip>
      Table "products_tbl"
 Attribute |     Type     | Modifier
-----------+--------------+----------
 prod_id   | varchar(10)  | not null
 prod_desc | varchar(40)  | not null
 cost      | numeric(6,2) | not null
Index: products_tbl_pkey

john=# select * from products_tbl
john-# where cost > .99;
ERROR:  Unable to identify an operator '>' for types 'numeric' and
'float8'
        You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
</snip>

I did a "\do" to take a look at the available operators.  Both of them
were there for both "numeric" and "float8".

I should mention that I'm running 7.0.3 on Red Hat 6.1.  It was
installed via RPMs.

Thanks.

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John Burski
Chief IT Cook and Bottlewasher
911 Emergency Products, St. Cloud, MN
(320) 656 0076       www.911ep.com

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