martin-sucha commented on issue #1578: URL: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/issues/1578#issuecomment-3316000605
The documentation you linked only refers to CQL constants. Cassandra DECIMAL has wider precision than floats. The decimal data type contains a variable precision decimal number, see the [CQL protocol documentation](https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/_attachments/native_protocol_v5.html#s5.6). Converting to float32 or float64 can lose precision, which is why gocql does not support it. Consider a case when you have decimal data in the database and you round-trip values through gocql. Gocql avoids conversion to less precise type so that the precision of the values stored in the database is not degraded. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org
