Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am having a problem gettig a percent via division. Below is the > first part of my trigger function where pct returns 0.00, instead of > the expected 0.50. If I try without dimensions to the numeric > variable, I just get 0. What is the correct way to accomplish the > percent? You are dividing an integer by an integer, and if the first integer is 1 then the result is often 0. You need to use numeric for your noreps variable. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly