Re: [SQL] Decimal precsion?

>
> >
> > Yeah I finnally figured that out, wish the docs would cover things like
> > that.
> >
> > I went through two books (which said its just liek COBOL! and then
> > ignored me) and finnally the mysql pages had a good right up.
> >
> > I still thing the 0.0 thing is an error.
> >
>
> Yes, and why doesn't this generate an error:
>
> test=> insert into example values(0.12345);
> INSERT 19488 1
> test=> insert into example values(0.1234567);
> INSERT 19489 1
> test=> select * from example;
> other
> ------
> 0.1235
> 0.1235
> (2 rows)
>
> Jan, can you comment on this. I found the code in numeric.c, but can't
> figure out what the proper test should be.

Haven't seen the original message, but it looks to me that
the column is declared as decimal with 4 digits after the
decimal point. Therefore, all values get rounded at the time
of INSERT/UPDATE. The above looks numerically right to me.

Isn't that behaviour correct? Does the standard define
something else?

Jan

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