On Sep 9, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Henry Drexler wrote:
> any ideas on how to get this type of a manufactured column (not sure the right term for it) to show the double
precisionresult?
Use floating point types in the calculation to begin with.
1.0/3.0
1::float8 / 3::float8
float8(1) / float8(3)
1.0/3
1/3.0
1::float8 / 3
...
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