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Re: [HACKERS] Bug?

Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>

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From: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: meskes@topsystem.de (Meskes, Michael)
Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, meskes@topsystem.de, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-05T16:16:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 
> Is there a way to explicitely tell the parser which kind of variable we
> want? That is something like float(1) to get 1.0.

    '1'::float8

> 
> It's obviously easier in Oracle (where my source came from) since they
> only have one number type. But expclicitely converting would be okay
> IMO.
> 
> Michael
> 
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Until later, Jan

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