Re: Floating point type to store numbers

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> The question is: how accurate is floating point numbers in Postgres. We
> are using 7.4 soon to be moving to 8.2.
> I need the accuracy to about 6 decimal points. I have read that floating
> points can convert to numbers in accurately.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-FLOAT

I didn't see anything about numeric being a string type,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.