Bob Pawley <rjpawley@xxxxxxx> writes: > My initial tables have columns containing values such as 12 feet. > I want to perform calculations. > Is there a method in Postgresql to separate the 12 from the unit feet or > am I forced to make two columns to separate the feet from the 12? Are you storing '12 feet' as a string? That seems awfully unstructured for data that you'd like to do calculations on. I seem to recall that someone had come up with a datatype that would store numbers with units attached, which seems like what you want here. Check the PG list archives, and/or poke around on pgfoundry and gborg. regards, tom lane
