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List:       mysql-internals
Subject:    bk commit - mysqldoc tree (paul:1.1203)
From:       paul () mysql ! com
Date:       2004-01-31 5:57:09
Message-ID: 20040131055709.947BD23A5BA () ice ! snake ! net
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Below is the list of changes that have just been committed into a local
mysqldoc repository of paul. When paul does a push these changes will
be propagated to the main repository and, within 24 hours after the
push, to the public repository.
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ChangeSet
  1.1203 04/01/30 23:57:04 paul@ice.snake.net +1 -0
  Correct description of floating-point value insertion.

  Docs/manual.texi
    1.1109 04/01/30 23:57:02 paul@ice.snake.net +4 -2
    Correct description of floating-point value insertion.

# This is a BitKeeper patch.  What follows are the unified diffs for the
# set of deltas contained in the patch.  The rest of the patch, the part
# that BitKeeper cares about, is below these diffs.
# User:	paul
# Host:	ice.snake.net
# Root:	/Volumes/ice2/MySQL/bk/mysqldoc

--- 1.1108/Docs/manual.texi	Fri Jan 30 23:38:24 2004
+++ 1.1109/Docs/manual.texi	Fri Jan 30 23:57:02 2004
@@ -33481,8 +33481,10 @@
 @code{DECIMAL} or @code{NUMERIC} column can be constrained by the
 @code{precision} or @code{scale} for a given column.  When such a column
 is assigned a value with more digits following the decimal point than
-are allowed by the specified @code{scale}, the value is rounded to that
-@code{scale}.  When a @code{DECIMAL} or @code{NUMERIC} column is
+are allowed by the specified @code{scale}, the value is converted to that
+@code{scale}.  (The precise behavior is operating-system specific, but
+generally the effect is truncation to the allowable number of digits.)
+When a @code{DECIMAL} or @code{NUMERIC} column is
 assigned a value whose magnitude exceeds the range implied by the
 specified (or defaulted) @code{precision} and @code{scale},
 MySQL stores the value representing the corresponding end

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