"Helen Borrie" <helebor@...> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.0.20020121223951.03090340@......

>
> It sounds OK to me. Dates are double precision numerics so they are good

for

> indexing searches and for some kinds of sorts. But, because of the

likelihood

> of mismatches arising from precision errors, they are not good as keys, or

for

> exact-match searches.

Double precision where? Certainly not in the engine!

C.
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