MySQL Bugs: #51217: IEEE 754 Support

Bug #51217	IEEE 754 Support
Submitted:	16 Feb 2010 19:02	Modified:	16 Feb 2010 19:39
Reporter:	ivo welch	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Data Types	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.1.42	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Add IEEE data type

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Description:

IEEE-754, the seeming universal float/double standard, defines NaN, Inf, and -Inf.  These special values are common occurrances in some scientific applications.  With most modern CPUs being built on these data types, and Oracle supporting this data type, too, could it be added into mysql, too?

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This is a duplicate of bug #41442.