[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 2/2] sql: rename REAL/FLOAT/DOUBLE types to NUMBER

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Nikita Pettik <korablev at tarantool.org> [19/07/30 09:41]:
> Before this patch it was allowed to specify REAL/FLOAT/DOUBLE types
> which matched with NUMBER NoSQL type in space format. However, NUMBER is
> different from standard floating point types, since it is able to hold
> integers in range [-2^63; 2^64-1] alongside with double precision
> floating point values. Hence, to not confuse users it has been decided
> to remove support of REAL/FLOAT/DOUBLE types from SQL grammar and use
> instead original NUMBER type naming.

This is a breaking change as some people are using 2.x.
Says a lot about the maturity of 2.x, eh...

LGTM.


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Konstantin Osipov, Moscow, Russia