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Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library?
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Bj�rn Lundin wrote:

> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>>Since the PostgreSQL group have expressed no
>>interest in supporting floating decimal
>>routines for the client, I wonder if anyone
>>in these groups know of an Ada package (preferred),
>>or C/C++ library that supports arbitrary
>>prcecision floating decimal values. 
>>
> 
> PostgreSQL returns everything but binary data as string, as far as I know.
> Can't you convert as string to what you want?


The string is not the problem. I need a decimal library
to do DECIMAL FLOAT arithmetic after I get the result
back from the SELECT. I do not want to send arithmetic
requests to the server (in a SELECT) -- that would be
very expensive.


> There is a VERY rudimentary PostgreSQL package doing that here:
> http://home.swipnet.se/lundin/ada_95_tools.html
> 
> I have a better one, but it's not published yet.
> 
> But then again, it might not be what you want
> /Bj�rn


Thanks for trying, but you misunderstand what I was
looking for.

Warren.