Hi
Sorry if this is in an FAQ somewhere, but I can't find anything...
I have a large amount of scientific data to ingest which consists of many floating point
numbers, some of which are deliberately set to not-a-number (NaN) or +/- infinity. I
don't need to preserve the type of NaN, but I do want to set the value to NULL upon
ingest.
Running MySQL inserts from the command line appears to show that MySQL interprets
not-a-number values by default as NULLs when attempting an insert. E.g.:
insert into my_float_table values (sqrt(-1));
insert into my_float_table values (1.0/0.0);
yeilds NULL values in my table.
This is fine, and is the behaviour I want.
However, if I use MySQL++ to insert a variable whose value is a NaN, the result is a
*ZERO* in my table, not a NULL value, as I expected. This is bad for me because zero is,
of course, a valid number.
What do I need to do to get MySQL++ to behave in the same way as doing an insert from the
command line?
Thanks in advance,
Ken
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