Re: [SQL] round(Numeric)
On 06/26/10 17:09, wrote: On 2010-06-25, Lee Hachadoorian wrote: Is it documented anywhere that floating-point numbers round "scientifically", that is 0.5 rounds to the nearest even number? That's swiss rounding. And no, as I understand it documented that most arithmetic) is platform specific. Postgres is written in C and the relevant portions of the C standards douments (and discussions thereof) give a good picture of the functioning of postgres arithmetic. IT IS REALLY SAD ! the round(Numeric) does not behave as Math science prescribes :( Shame on PostgresQL ! -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
Re: [SQL] help
Or even simpler, or easier to understand: SELECT trim(foo, '()') FROM foobar pozdrowienia / regards / salutations mk 2010/5/5 Nicholas I > Hi, > > I have a table in which the data's are entered like, > > Example: > > One (1) > Two (2) > Three (3) > > I want to extract the data which is only within the parentheses. > > that is > 1 > 2 > 3 > > > Thank You > Nicholas I > >
