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Re: How to handle 'not a number' in postgresql

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, thereverandpdawg wrote:

I have some field data which comes off of a data logger. In some cases
the data is out of bounds of logger or instrumentation. In which case
it is reported as 'NaN' for 'not a number.'

Is there such a value in postgresql? If not I will have to hack it in
with a boolean and would rather not do so.

  It would be appropriate to convert NaN to NULL since the valid is
literally unknown.

Rich

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