Don't ever use the float type for database columns

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

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

Henning Koch
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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-02-24 11:51)
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