You are right,
it was a panic test on a old db.
really critical for us ( all fields numeric(18,x) )
i think double precision isn't large enough for many people. Ugly oracle has
38 digits for numbers.
Sorry about my non-architectural e-mails.

Ali

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nando Dessena" <nandod@...>
To: <IB-Architect@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Re: [Firebird-admin] Draft: FB v1.0 Status
Update


> Ali,
>
> > IBConsole:
> > select cast (-70000 as numeric (18,5)) / cast (1.95583 as numeric
(18,5))
> > from rdb$database;
> > -35790,4316837353
> >
> > (FB RC2, copy-paste-execute from your mail)
>
> pay attention to the fact that it's a dialect 3 bug. You have probably
> tried with a dialect 1 database.
> Ciao
> --
> ____
> _/\/ando
>