Support for"decimal" data types

Open philrz opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

The Formats docs have placeholders for "decimal" types decimal32,decimal64, decimal128, and decimal256 such as are often used in financial applications. This issue tracks their implementation in the SuperDB tooling.

Oct 19 '20 23:10 philrz

#5295 shows an example of how defaulting to representing fractional values as float vs. decimal creates an effect that may look like a bug to a user.

Apr 17 '25 18:04 philrz

This become even more relevant in the SuperSQL era since DECIMAL and NUMERIC are part of standard SQL and appear in implementations such as Postgres.

Jul 07 '25 22:07 philrz