As per David's email the uom field is already there, the migration service was 
just a suggestion and because the uom is already there it isn't useful anyway.

Regards
Scott

On 30/03/2010, at 9:49 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Why not simply add a new field for the UomId ? Do we really need a service to 
> migrate data?
> It seems to me that previous integers will be simply represented with 0 
> decimals. At least I tested on Postgres without any issues at all.
> I tried to keep things simple, to me and to persons who will need to update: 
> no deprecation, just a change.
> Though I only tested on Postgres and there are maybe syntactic SQL 
> variations...
> 
> Jacques
> 
> Scott Gray wrote:
>> If we want it to be a bit more generic we should probably add two new 
>> fields: floorArea and floorAreaUomId and then deprecate
>> squareFootage, perhaps with a migration service to populate the new fields 
>> with the data from the old.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Scott
>> 
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>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>> 
>> On 30/03/2010, at 7:22 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to allow Facility.squareFootage to support decimals. In order to 
>>> do that, I need to change the type of the
>>> squareFootage field from numeric to fixed-point. I can't see any issues 
>>> doing that OOTB. But in case this would be a problem for
>>> someone I prefer to warn.
>>> 
>>> Jacques 
> 
> 

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