Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Sheeri K. Cabral wrote: > >> I'd thought DECIMAL had already been, well, decimated by Brian -- he'd >> sent a message about throwing it away on Jul 15th.... > > The code around the old is completely gone. The question is should we > return to the previous version of DECIMAL.
I think we should not go back to the previous version. The only reason to have decimal at all is to have arbitrary precision numbers that you can do math on. If we're going to slurp it around as a string, then I think we should just kill it and have people store their self-encoded decimal strings in arbitraty binary columns. With decent pluggable UDFs, then there is no reason someone couldn't write a UDF that could perform math on a chunk of bytes that they have encoded themselves using some decimal encoding lib. To us it's bytes. So, I guess that brings me down on the side of just getting rid of it all together. Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
