> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ray Zimmerman [mailto:rz10@stripped]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 20:22
> I believe I have discovered a bug (I'm guessing it's in DBD::mysql).
> When connecting to mysql 5, it returns the type of a decimal column
> as SQL_VARCHAR, as opposed to SQL_DECIMAL returned when the mysql
> server is version 4.1.
I don't think it's DBD::mysql. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14923 has an
entry from the MySQL people that may be an explanation. Base line: "There is
no standard C type for fixed point numeric type, so MySQL server
returns decimal as a string." This comes also up in MySQL QueryBrowser, so
it's not just DBD::mysql.
As a workaround, the entry suggests to cast the decimal to some other type
(like double). Which may, of course, lead to loss of accuracy.
\Gisbert
