At 07:08 PM 21/01/2008, Nando wrote:

>Helen,
>
>H> There are no plans in the pipeline to support 128-bit
>H> integers in Firebird 2.5 or Firebird 3. About the future - who
>H> knows?
>
>I think the problem of huge exact numerics is better solved through
>BCD numbers (as at least Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL do) than
>huge scaled integers.

Agreed.

./heLen