Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Postgres, Tinycobol and PIC 9(4)

[Harald V. <vo...@in...>]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Iker Etxebarria wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
>    I've done a cobol program that stores information in a  postgres Database. 
> I've problems with number pictures. What number type do you usually use to 
> store pictures like PIC 9(4)?

I'm also using Postgres and I use the NUMERIC type. But I am converting the
Cobol data when writing and reading to/from the database. I'd like to use
the TinyCobol routines for conversion, which are already there in the TC
source. But I found them quite hard to understand and even harder to use
(have to build a complicated [at least poorly documented] datastructure),
so I wrote my own conversion routines. They work fine for me, but I don't
know if they cover all cases. (They do cover PIC S9(..)V9(..) at least.) I
can send you the code, if you like.

-Harald