I didn't formulate my question properly, because the query went like
"select alldefects /wordcount"
where alldefects and wordcount are integers. But none of the different ways
of putting the double colon seemed to work.
The Postgres notation of this simple procedure is very unintuitive. I haven't
been able to remember several times, and most people think of me as a person
with a reasonably good memory. There is no obvious place in the documentation
to look this up.
On 12/4/18, 2:45 PM, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:38 PM Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com>
wrote:
> I may be misunderstanding the question but:
Indeed...
> select cast(x/y as numeric(10,4));
Your answer is 2.0 instead of the correct 2.5 - you need to cast
before the division, not after.
David J.
