Displaying a float8 as a full-length number

[Grant Rutherford]

Hello,

I need to get a float8 to display as a number

db=# SELECT CAST('0.00001' AS float8);
float8
--------
1e-05
(1 row)
I need this to return 0.00001 instead. I know about the to_char
function, but this seems to truncate the number after fourteen digits of
precision:
db=# SELECT CAST('0.0000000 00000001' AS float8);
float8
--------
1e-15
(1 row)

db=# SELECT to_char(CAST('0 .00000000000000 1' AS float8),
CAST('0.9999999 999999999999999 999' AS text));
to_char
-------------------
0.0000000000000 0
(1 row)
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Grant
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[Julie May]

Grant,

Cast it to numeric instead of float8.
SELECT CAST('0.00001' AS numeric);

Julie

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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:48:09 -0500,
Grant Rutherford <gr*********@id ers.ca> wrote:

I need this to return 0.00001 instead. I know about the to_char
function, but this seems to truncate the number after fourteen digits of
precision:

How about casting it to numeric? It seemed to work reasonably for me,
but I only tried one case.

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[Grant Rutherford]

Julie May wrote:

Grant,

Cast it to numeric instead of float8.
SELECT CAST('0.00001' AS numeric);

Julie

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Thanks, that worked perfectly.

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