Re: floor function in 7.3b2

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> "Mario Weilguni" <mario.weilguni@icomedias.com> writes:
> > Why is floor not working anymore?
> 
> Mph.  Seems we have floor(numeric) but not floor(float8), and the latter
> is what you need here.

Sorry, I missed much of the casting discussion -- but is there a
reason why we can't cast from float8 -> numeric implicitely? IIRC the
idea was to allow implicit casts from lower precision types to higher
precision ones.

Cheers,

Neil

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