"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It's not only useless, it's dangerous. As fas as I know, numeric > _guarantees_ the result of a operation to be correct to the last digit. Nonsense ... see division. By your argument we should not implement numeric / numeric. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq