On Sep 9, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Henry Drexler wrote:

> any ideas on how to get this type of a manufactured column (not sure the 
> right term for it) to show the double precision result?

Use floating point types in the calculation to begin with.

1.0/3.0
1::float8 / 3::float8
float8(1) / float8(3)
1.0/3
1/3.0
1::float8 / 3
...

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