> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Peshkoff [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Martes, 06 de Marzo de 2012 8:06
> 
> Also want to agree, but I remember there were some real reasons
> (unfortunately do not remember them) making people stay with dialect1.
> May be somebody remembers that reasons?

I think that the different treatment of date format (when converting to
text) and datetime storage (double v/s int64) wasn't the primary motivation.

The main reason was that dialect 3 imposes exact numerics rules for
multiplication and division and we don't have enough bits to account for all
cases (we would need internally int128 or somewhat alike). Also, division
becomes C-like for integer numbers.

C.



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