>
> 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.
>
Me too.

Regards, Christoph



Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:49:49 +0100
Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
Re: numeric datataypes as seperate library