[TYPO3-dev] floats in Database

[Martin Kutschker]

Stefan Beylen schrieb:
> hi,
> 
> my second question today, sorry for bothering
> 
> I want to store the longitude and latitude of certain points on earth, 
> problem is that when I choose advanced string in kickstarter and choose 
> float then it makes it a double2, having 2 decimal positions (eg. x.xx).

But will it make the column a numeric type? See the Mysql documentation if 
you need DECIMAL or NUMERIC for your application and change the type 
accordingly in ext_tables.sql.

But I'm not sure if TYPO3 handles true numeric DB columns (except for 
integers).

Masi