am Mon, dem 13.11.2006, um 5:45:44 -0800 mailte SunWuKung folgendes: > What would be the easiest way to get back only the meaningful digits of > a numeric value in a pgsql function? eg? > > 1.002 --> 1.002 > 1.020 --> 1.02 > 1.200 --> 1.2 > 1.000 --> 1 You can use trim for this: test=*> select 1.020 + 0.01; ?column? ---------- 1.030 (1 row) test=*> select trim(trailing '0' from 1.020 + 0.01); rtrim ------- 1.03 (1 row) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net