Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:23:31AM -0800, Postgres User wrote: >> However, I have found that my record variable is not assigned proper >> field-level datatypes. As a result, I'm unable to write basic math >> calcs in pg/sql without a lot of typecasting. > What version are you running. On my 8.1.9 test system it returns -1.00 > as expected. Works for me too, in all branches back to 8.0. However, I noticed that the test function references "test.table2" not just "table2", which makes me wonder if maybe this is picking up some other table2 than the OP thinks. A test.table2 with integer columns would explain the result. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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