It's a useful idea and something supported in other databases. MySQL has FORMAT function:
FORMAT(X,D[,locale]) Formats the number X to a format like '#,###,###.##', rounded to D decimal places, and returns the result as a string. If D is 0, the result has no decimal point or fractional part. If X or D is NULL, the function returns NULL.FORMAT(X,D[,locale]) ex: SELECT FORMAT(250500.5634, 2); 250,500.56 SELECT FORMAT(250500.5634,0); 250,500 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_format On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:10 AM Štefan Miklošovič < stefan.mikloso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to propose CASSANDRA-19546. It would be possible to convert raw > numbers to something human-friendly. > There are cases when we write just a number of bytes in our system tables > but these numbers are just hard to parse visually. Users can indeed use > this for their tables too if they find it useful. > > Also, a user can indeed write a UDF for this but I would prefer if we had > something baked in. > > Does this make sense to people? Are there any other approaches to do this? > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19546 > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/3239/files > > Regards >
