[SQL] String function page incorrect?

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I'm trying to find the correct function that returns the location of a substring within a string. Looking at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user/x2731.htm, it gives the Function name as "textpos" but in the Example column it uses "position". But neither one works! bf2=# select position('high',

Re: [SQL] numeric conversions?

2000-11-20 Thread Jonathan Ellis
> 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: