Subject Re: [firebird-support] Numeric rounding?
Author Helen Borrie
At 06:43 PM 4/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:


>Hi All,
>
>I have a table (FB 1.5) with a field defined as Numeric(12,4). I use
>this field in a store procedure with a variable defined as
>Numeric(12,2). When the field is selected into the variable it stores
>something like 123.4567 in the defined variable instead of rounding it
>to 123.46 as expected. Is there a way to make Firebird respect the
>variable definition in the stored procedure and round the number
>correctly?

Cast the incoming (12,4) as (12,2). E.g.

...
declare newvar numeric(12,2);
.....

for select (
....,
cast(original as numeric(12,2)),
....
into
.....
:newvar,
...

./hb