Re: [PyIndexer] Notes on Docs and Testing

[Chris W. <ch...@ni...>]

Marcus Collins wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 at 12:37:11 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> > Marcus Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > probably most DBMS)? The database server returns the float as a string,
> > > the database API converts it back to a float,
> >
> > It does? why? that sucks :-S
> 
> The MySQL C API returns rows as an array of strings. See the typedefs
> and prototypes in mysql.h...

Booo hiss and shame on MySQL :-(

Has anyone requested this 'feature' be changed?

cheers,

Chris