Good day, everyone, and thank you for your time!
I am not a member of the mailing list (I had to swear them off as
addictive =o) but am posting this question in the hope that some
generous soul will assist me anyway.

I am building a database in which I want to restrict the values in one
column to a positive fraction less than 10. UNSIGNED is easy enough,
but when I try to limit the number of significant digits to the left of
the decimal to less than 2 MySQL simply seems to think that I must be
mistaken, and always pads to at least 2 nonfractional digits.

Is there a way to 
  mysql> create table xmp (
      ->   this real(5,4)
      -> );
  Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
so that 
  mysql> desc xmp;
doesn't come back with
  +-------+-------------+
  | this  | double(6,4) |
  +-------+-------------+
?????

(obviously, extraneous data removed from cut&paste.)

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directly.

Paul

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