[GENERAL] Crazy Multiplication Issue

2005-04-02 Thread Dave Horn
Howdy Gents- I'm sure I'm having an "oh duh!" moment, but can anyone tell me what is going on here. I am multiplying two columns it doesn't matter what their data type is not does it seem to matter if I explicitly cast these values to some other data type every time they are multiplied I am get

Re: [GENERAL] Crazy Multiplication Issue

2005-04-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Dave Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I perform > select col1 * col2, 213.1086 * .833 from tableA > I get the following values > 177.519464 and 177.583396 Works for me ... you *sure* it hasn't got something to do with the datatypes you're using? Specifically, float4 is only good to about s

Re: [GENERAL] Crazy Multiplication Issue

2005-04-04 Thread John Burger
Howdy Gents- Howdy to everyone else. I am multiplying two columns it doesn't matter what their data type is not does it seem to matter if I explicitly cast these values to some other data type every time they are multiplied I am getting an incorrect result. col1 = 213.1086 col2 = 0.833 If I per