BCD format

stefari@tiscali.it wrote:

Hi all !
I have to create a table with a BCD formatted field.
Can Postrgresql to support this field's type or I have to insert it in binary
mode???

I do not believe PostgreSQL supports BCD by default. However
you could created your own type.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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Consider using numeric type.
Like BCD, it will perform exact decimal arithmetic.

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Subject: [GENERAL] BCD format

Hi all !
I have to create a table with a BCD formatted field.
Can Postrgresql to support this field's type or I have to insert it in
binary
mode???

Thanks and happy new year to all !!!

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stefari@tiscali.it wrote:

Hi all !
I have to create a table with a BCD formatted field.
Can Postrgresql to support this field's type or I have to insert it in binary
mode???

Have you considered using a NUMERIC field instead? That supports
exact fixed point arithmetic, much like BCD.

And I don't think that C compilers commonly support a BCD type, so if
you emulated it, you'd be left doing quite a lot of work to make a
type that wouldn't be terribly efficient.
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