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From: Konstantin Osipov <kostja@tarantool.org>
Subject: Re: [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 5/5] decimal: allow to index decimals
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* Serge Petrenko <sergepetrenko@tarantool.org> [19/07/17 18:34]:
> Indices can now be built over decimal fields.
> A new field type - 'decimal' is introduced.
> Decimal values may be stored in 'decimal' columns, as well as in
> 'scalar' and 'any' columns.

At first I asked myself whether we should allow DECIMAL values in
NUMBER indexes. And then I recalled that Tarantool NUMBER is a
counterpart for Lua number, and lua 5.3 supports decimal values in
its number type.



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Konstantin Osipov, Moscow, Russia