Hi! On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Sheeri K. Cabral <[email protected]> wrote: > In general, I'm OK with dropping DECIMAL as a built-in type. (just > try to calculate storage of a DECIMAL type! It's very annoying).
??? I don't understand....perhaps this is incredibly ignorant but isn't throwing decimal out alltogether a bit too much? I mean, decimal is the only datatype that deals with fixed precision fractions, right? Suppose I'd want to do something with monetary amounts...do you suggest to scale those up and store them as integers? I don't really mind what library sits behind it, but I think having a reliable fixed precision fractional number type is a pretty essential feature. kind regards, Roland > > However, I don't really want RMS claiming it should be called "Gnu > Drizzle". (the thought popped into my head...I doubt that it would > happen, but my brain works in strange ways sometimes) > > -- > - Sheeri K. Cabral > > http://tinyurl.com/mysqlbook will take you to the Amazon.com page for > my book, "MySQL Administrator's Bible". > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Roland Bouman http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/ Author of "Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL", http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470484322.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
