On 03/06/12 23:56, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 06.03.2012 20:54, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: >> It will be 0.333... (up to the maximum NUMBER scale precision). >> >> The thing is that for operations like addition, subtraction, NUMBER will >> work like NUMERIC (i.e., it's results are more precise than DOUBLE). > In this case much easier is to change intermediate result of division to > floating-point > type. No need to introduce new type for this. >
There is one more problem with this solution - migrating old databases to new datatypes is nightmare. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
