Hi!
I'm working through some reference checking right now, and decided to
look at decimal. Just for those playing along at home, up until 5.0
MySQL just stored DECIMAL as a string, mostly, and did all operations
on it through normal mathematical operations. Starting in 5.0 we
switched to a library and internal developer wrote which should mimic
the SQL standard (and if you read the header in the subject you can
find out some of the absurd bits it is doing).
Would anyone care if we dropped this in favor of just using one of the
GNU based arbitrary libraries in the future? GMP perhaps (though it is
not quite the same)? I'm a minimalist when it comes to built in types
so I tend to favor this approach, but I would like to hear from others
as well.
Cheers,
-Brian
BTW any thoughts on long double over our current use of double? It
looks like it would be a mess.
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