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On May 25, 4:35 am, Joe Barnhart <joe.barnh...@gmail.com> wrote: > About a million years ago, when I did DB2 programming, we used DECIMAL > a lot. Anything that handled money was a DECIMAL value. We also did > calculations on columns, like SUM(). I think it is worthwhile pursuing > a solution for the DAL in web2py, as we used it a lot for anything > financial. In fact, it was relatively rare that we needed floats or > doubles. > > Another thread touched on the topic of making the DAL itself somewhat > modular. The context of the request was to make DAL more tuned to the > needs of GAE developers by exploiting its not-quite-relational feature > set. Perhaps these cases could point to a way to modularize the DAL > such that it becomes an extendable component instead of a fixed one. > > In my own case, I have interest in substituting an OODB (developed in- > house) for the SQL features of the DAL. Our OODB is really nothing > like a relational database, but stores and retrieves objects based on > their metadata. Replacing the web2py DAL with my own is beyond my > meager ability at this point, but if the DAL itself had a clear > interface with web2py I might be able to tackle it. > > Warm regards, > > Joe Barnhart > > On May 24, 6:01 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > *sigh* .... yes, I am coming around to this simple awareness... and there > > appears to be no unified decimal approach to sqlite (from what I can > > tell).... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
