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Don't ever use the float type for database columns

Henning Koch
February 24, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Like in any language, a FLOAT will eventually corrupt data due to rounding errors.

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Please use DECIMAL, which has well-defined behavior for rounding and range overflows.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-02-24 12:51)