On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:06:58 +0100 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <m...@webthatworks.it> wrote:
To make the change in format permanent you've to build a view from the query and change the format there otherwise if you change the format in the query the format is lost next time you run the query. A bit weird. If I could give a suggestion I'd make the default format for numbers in queries follow the same schema as in postgresql (and most DB I know). NUMERIC(A, N) * NUMERIC(B, M) -> NUMERIC(A + B, N + M) and FLOAT/DOUBLE all significant digits. > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:57:47 +0000 > Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > Are you saying you have solved this problem yourself without help > > from the list or has the problem just changed a bit? > > To summarize it for posterity: > > I wasn't able to appreciate if any change I was doing to the type used > (NUMERIC(N, M) or FLOAT or DOUBLE) in SQL operations was effective > since all I could get out from the DB was 2 decimals either in > "simple" format (1234567898,31) or scientific format (6,23E+015). > > Not being able to see any change tricked me into thinking that no > matter what type I was using there was no effect on precision since > I'm used to something like: > > test=# select 1.01::numeric(4,2)*2.02::numeric(4,2); > ?column? > ---------- > 2.0402 > (1 row) > > The problem was just a problem of output format that can be set once > you run the query, and in the result window right click on the column > name and change the format. > > > Thanks for the moral support anyway. > -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
