Re: Help convincing a vendor....

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Andrew Sullivan 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.

See my recent correction about this. however, it wouldn't surprise me to
find out that while they get stored as strings, they quite likely get
operated on as floats...