>Description:
with DECIMAL the number of digits before and after the decimal
point is fixed. Thus it should be described in the documentation as a
fixed point number
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Submitter-Id: <submitter ID>
>Originator:
>Organization:
Dr. Ernst Kloppenburg
Robert Bosch GmbH, Abt. FV/FLI
Tel. 0711/811-6739, BCN 9020-6739
>
>MySQL support: none
>Synopsis: Documentation says DECIMAL is floating-point but it is fixed-point
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Category: mysql
>Class: doc-bug
>Release: mysql-3.23.36 (Source distribution) -> debian
>Server: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.18 Distrib 3.23.36, for pc-linux-gnu on i586
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
Server version 3.23.36-log
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 28 min 18 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 6 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 7 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 1
Queries per second avg: 0.004
>Environment:
System: Linux sh24593 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--libexecdir=/usr/sbin --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc/mysql
--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --includedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --with-libwrap --enable-assembler
--with-berkeley-db --with-innobase --enable-static --enable-shared --with-raid
--without-readline --with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
--with-mysqld-user=mysql --without-bench --with-extra-charsets=all
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