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.

And of course I don't like the idea of linking in the GPLed 
GNU MP library on default as this would create licensing problems.

Michael
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Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:00:33 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
numeric datataypes as seperate library
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


26 Feb 2003 13:10:46 +0200
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Re: numeric datataypes as seperate library
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:00, Michael Meskes wrote:
> And of course I don't like the idea of linking in the GPLed 
> GNU MP library on default as this would create licensing problems.

Actually, GNU MP is released under the LGPL.

Cheers,

Neil
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26 Feb 2003 12:35:22 -0500
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Re: numeric datataypes as seperate library