Re: Help convincing a vendor....

--On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 15:49:47 -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:28:32AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>> I'm involved in a beta for some extensions for said vendor, and am
>> looking for COGENT
>> arguments for them to include BOTH MySQL (they already include MySQL in
>> the package, and
>> for the "other OS" may "have" to do PG for stability reasons).
>
> Well, what about, "We have to use PostgreSQL, because our accounting
> department requires stability in numeric data. In MySQL, numeric()
> gets stored internally as a float, and that leads to potential
> problems in accounting applications."
>
> I didn't know about the numeric/float issue in MySQL, but I know for
> sure that it would automatically disqualify it for anything we'd use
> it for.
>
> A
Good one. I hadn't seen that till recently on one list here or another.

Keep 'em coming folks. I'm forwarding to the beta coordinator.

LER

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