Re: Yet another question on DECMIAL precision

2004-10-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hi. Thank you for the message, I've sent your report to docs team. > 5) I'm sucking data from Oracle into MySQL using Perl and > would like to propose a behavior change for DECIMAL ... >7) The article > http://www.ixora.com.au/notes/number_representation.htm?number=3.14159265358987

Re: Yet another question on DECMIAL precision

2004-10-27 Thread Lawrence K. Hixson
"Lawrence K. Hixson" wrote: > 4) This has been fixed in MySQL server 4.1, but why wasn't > this caveat explicitly WELL DOCUMENTED in the documentation > so developers could avoid this land mine along with the > additional gotcha under Windows? Could someone please > revise the documentation to mak

Yet another question on DECMIAL precision

2004-10-27 Thread Lawrence K. Hixson
Dear MySQL Support List: Way back in early 2003 two questions and answers appeared on this list and bug list RE: DECIMAL precision. See both at http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/141268 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=559 1) Did anyone else notice that the 'INSERT INTO' value DID NOT MATCH the 'S