Re: numeric conversions?

> is the type casting done automaticly? how? can i have an influence of
> the cast order? is there an easy way to doing the rounding?

bf2=# select 1 / 2 from dual;
 ?column?
----------
        0
(1 row)

bf2=# select 1::float / 2 from dual;
 ?column?
----------
      0.5
(1 row)

bf2=# select (1::float / 2)::int from dual;
 ?column?
----------
        0
(1 row)

Also you have the functions round, floor, and ceil, which do what you would
expect.

-Jonathan