Non-portable FLOAT and SMALLFLOAT

Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) writes : > If you do have FLOAT and SMALLFLOAT values in your database, you must do > the unload if you switch machine architectures -- nothing is worse than > seeing that the debtors to your company all owe 1.0E-308 and you owe > 1.0E+308 to all your creditors, which was roughly the effect of moving > Motorola FLOAT data to Intel boxes. :-) :-) Kinda hinting that you should use decimal(m,n) , too ? Cheers - Tony. __________________________________________________________________________ Tony Heskett th@bnr.co.uk Voice: (+44) 279 402637 BNR, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA Fax: (+44) 279 451434