How to increase precision?

Hello all,

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?

Thank you for your time.

Daniel






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