-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brandon Aiken wrote: > To be fair, that's the fault of the previous designer, not MySQL. > You don't blame Stanley when your contractor uses 2" plain nails > when he needed 3" galvanized. The tool isn't to blame just > because someone used it incorrectly. Shows that you've been afflicted with the MySQL "app developer must do everything" disease. Just as a PK should not let you insert a duplicate record, a NUMERIC(12,2) should not let you insert a too-big number. Tool analogy: Pneumatic nailer says "maximum nail length 3 inches", but it *lets* you install *4* inch nails. So, you do what you can, it mis-fires and you nail your hand to the deck. Who's fault is it? Theirs, for making it easy to install 4 inch nails, or yours for doing it? That's where the analogy breaks down. DBMSs have *always* returned errors when the app tries to do something beyond the range of the DB's parameters. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE823ES9HxQb37XmcRAi2bAKDXSW7ImqWSmpYKLGKFUxkdxtdz/QCgt2RM DiTn9wpUZoOJ8WIrFXxKmQ4= =U6SP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
