> User also will probably execute some > queries that do some arithmetic operations on values in that column. > And they will be really surprised to see that not all the data is > numbers there. > > My test shows, that I can successfuly execute queries like (c is NUMERIC column): select c, c+100 from tab; or select sum(c) from tab;
It seems, that SQLite converts BLOB->TEXT->REAL when doing such queries (of course precision is lost, but it works when storage class of value is BLOB) > So you better insert everything as numbers, let SQLite transform > everything to REAL and lose precision. And tell your users that it's > limitation of SQLite and you cannot do anything with it, only suggest > to insert big numbers as text. > > May be, I will summarize it and I will post it into FreePascal devel mailing list ... Thanks Laco. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
