Add shorthand cast for DECFLOAT to simplify defining values in literals -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: CORE-6060 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6060 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: Engine Affects Versions: 4.0 Beta 1 Reporter: Mark Rotteveel The literal support for DECFLOAT is limited to exact numeric literals of 20 or more digits (eg 1.2345678901234567890), or for approximate numeric literals (scientific notation, normally used for double precision) with a mantissa greater than 308 or smaller than -308. It would be helpful to introduce a shorthand cast, for example DECFLOAT'<signed numeric string>', which would be equivalent to CAST('<signed numeric string>' as DECFLOAT). This would be similar to the shorthand casts that exist for the date/time types. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel