| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: numeric datataypes as seperate library |
| Date: | 2003-02-26 11:10:46 |
| Message-ID: | 1046257845.1375.1.camel@fuji.krosing.net |
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Michael Meskes kirjutas K, 26.02.2003 kell 13:00:
> Did anyone ever think about creating a library that is able to handle
> our numeric datatype? I'm currently thinking about adding this datatype
> among others to the ones know to ecpg so no one is forced to convert
> them or work on the strings. On the other hand I'm not sure if anyone's
> interested in this feature as you could always keep the numbers as
> strings and let the database do all calculation stuff. But then you
> cannot use the datatype in C.
I see at least 3 datatypes that would be nice to have libraries for
using in client programs - NUMERIC, VARBIT and our DATE/TIME/TIMESTAMP.
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Hannu
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