02.02.2018 19:08, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
On 02/02/18 19:40, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
02.02.2018 17:25, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
I.e. to represent NUMERIC/DECIMAL(M, N) where M > 18 will be used SQL_DEC34 with
sqlsubtype 1/2? But what should be the value of sql_scale? On the one hand in should be
non-zero to let user know how many digits after decimal point may be used. On the other
- for non-zero scale in numeric fields we always used to follow the rule: value =
basic-type-value * pow(10, -scale) but most of people here tend to require SQL_DEC34 to
be already scaled correctly.
Because SQL_DEC* values according to IEEE are, actually, floating-point values, they
must be treated the same way as SQL_FLOAT and SQL_DOUBLE, IMHO.
I.e. like numerics based on SQL_DOUBLE in dialect 1?
Yes. AFAIR, they are not scaled and sqlscale is always zero for them.
For scaled integers (SQL_LONG, SQL_INT64) the value is supposed to be a real integer
which, for example, can be divided by 2 using bitwise shifts. AFAIU, fixed decfloat cannot
be divided this way, right?
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WBR, SD.
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