The is an old old problem. I ran into it once many many moons ago working
with an Access report using ODBC on an Oracle 7 table.
The Access report was summing up about 200k records and one field was a FP
number. All of the records that had a field value of 0 Access just could
not see it as 0
I admire Peter's effort in tracking down the specifics at various
conversion points.
However, there are no documented guarantees of equality from the
library. I hope you're not seriously considering jigging the libraries
to make your program work. If you do that, you'll run up against the
same p
Taking up on Peter's answer to
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/2007/07/msg31663.html:
This is peculiar, though. DBD::Oracle gets the number from the database
as a string (this can be confirmed with Devel::Peek::Dump), so the above
code should be equvialent to:
my ($val) = ('1.736
