RE: [INTERFACES] ODBC oin Windows

Use the numeric data type. You must have Postgres 6.5 or greater.

Michael J Davis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Didier Gasser-Morlay [SMTP:didierg(at)visualgroup(dot)com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:40 AM
> To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [INTERFACES] ODBC oin Windows
>
> I have downloaded and happilly installed the odbc driver for Windows
> from insightdist.com
>
> I am using Delphi 4 SP3 on Windows NT 4 SP3 and I have the following
> questions/problems
>
> 1. Money type is seen has a float. Delphi complains when trying to post
> a float into a money
> 2. Int8 is seen as a 17 byte string
> 3. float4 is seens as using 8 bytes (as float8)
>
> 4. Since the money type is not recommended, I was planning to store
> money amount in int8 forcing the number of decimals to a known number.
> Since delphi sees int8 as a string this makes life a bit tricky,
> especially doing calculations. How do you store large money amounts (4
> bytes when you store e.g. italian Lira or Spanish Pesetas is a bit
> small)
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Didier
>
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