[basedb-devel] Re: floats rather than integers in schema

[Carl T. <ca...@th...>]

p.l...@me... writes:

> even though we may not be doing much on BASE anytime soon, I still thought it
> might be useful to share a relatively recent patch of ours, which is fairly
> minimal, but nonetheless important. It concerns the ubiquitous use of
> integers which we think really ought to be reals. The context diff is
> included. If anything, it might provoke some debate on the
> issue.

It'll cost about 24 bytes per row in RawBioAssayData, so the table will
grow by about 20-30%. Not too bad. Some changes might be needed in the
code to reflect that it's float rather than int, but I'm not sure.
I know that there will be some changes needed when we make the
extracted/labeled quantities floats, but since I'm doing lots of
changes there anyway (for hiding, groups, general cleanup), I can
just as well do that at the same time.

//Carl

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