A very interesting post, I had learned something new. Greetings.
Walter. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mark Rotteveel <m...@lawinegevaar.nl>wrote: > ** > > > On 29-10-2012 17:48, Carlos H. Cantu wrote: > > MR> No, a direct system table update like that would rescale all your > existing > > MR> numbers. Eg from (15,4) to (15,8) a value 54321.1234 would become > > MR> 5.43211234 > > > > Not really. You can test by yourself... seems that stored values are > > associated with a record in RDB$FORMATS that describes the original > > format when they were stored, and when FB retrieves the value, it > > respects the original format (thanks Ivan for the note). > > > > My tests showed no problem with my proposed approach. I posted here > > just to make sure that it would not have any side effects that I didnt > > see yet. If someone knows any, please post here. > > Ok, good to know that. I didn't know that the formats were also > maintained when not using DDL. > > Mark > -- > Mark Rotteveel > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Resources item on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links ! Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: firebird-support-dig...@yahoogroups.com firebird-support-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: firebird-support-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
