Re: PostgresSQL 10 | Driver 42.2.5 | Float Conversion Issue

From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Thangavel, Parameswaran" <Parameswaran(dot)Thangavel(at)rsa(dot)com>, "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgresSQL 10 | Driver 42.2.5 | Float Conversion Issue
Date: 2020-10-20 19:24:02
Message-ID: VisenaEmail.98.ebf0ca280ce8e2b7.175476a101e@tc7-visena
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På tirsdag 20. oktober 2020 kl. 20:59:45, skrev David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>>: On Tuesday,
October 20, 2020, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com
<mailto:andreas(at)visena(dot)com>> wrote:
there should, IMO, be a big fat warning "Don't use the float datatype, at all"
somewhere.

Chapter 8.1

David J.

Many, at least non-programmers, expect computers to act like calculators when
it comes to numbers and arithmetic operations, and I can't blame them.

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