Re: pg_dumpall problems

Started by Stephan Szaboover 25 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Stephan Szabo
sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com

I believe the standard way is
CAST(1.1 as numeric)

But the following should also work:
1.1::numeric

Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, g wrote:

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I need to know how to cast types. Here's my basic problem:
I'm trying to:

update products set list_price = gsa_price * 1.1 where list_price =
gsa_price;

The error I get back is:

ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '*' for types 'numeric' and
'float8' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast

So, I'm assuming that I need to cast the value 1.1 as a numeric so that I
will be multiplying a numeric times a numeric.

Then I realized I had no idea what the syntax to do the cast was.

#2g
brian@wuwei.govshops.com
In reply to: Stephan Szabo (#1)

Thanks. I figured out the CAST later but didn't know the 1.1::numeric
syntax.

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Brian Knox
Senior Systems Engineer
brian@govshops.com

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Stephan Szabo wrote:

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I believe the standard way is
CAST(1.1 as numeric)

But the following should also work:
1.1::numeric

Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, g wrote:

I need to know how to cast types. Here's my basic problem:
I'm trying to:

update products set list_price = gsa_price * 1.1 where list_price =
gsa_price;

The error I get back is:

ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '*' for types 'numeric' and
'float8' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast

So, I'm assuming that I need to cast the value 1.1 as a numeric so that I
will be multiplying a numeric times a numeric.

Then I realized I had no idea what the syntax to do the cast was.