Informix-ESQL/C Programmer's Manual
Chapter 5: Working with Numeric Data Types
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Informix database servers support the following numeric data types:
Integer data types:
SMALLINT
,
INTEGER
,
SERIAL
Integer data types:
INT8
,
SERIAL8
Floating-point data types:
SMALLFLOAT
and
FLOAT
Fixed-point data types:
DECIMAL
and
MONEY
This chapter describes the following features that INFORMIX-ESQL/C provides to work with numeric data types:
How to declare host variables for the integer data types
How to declare host variables for the floating-point data types
How to manipulate the
INT8
and
SERIAL8
data types
How to use numeric-formatting masks to format numeric values
For information about the fixed-point data types, see
Chapter 4, "Working with the DECIMAL Data Type."
For information about all the data types available for use in an ESQL/C program, see
Chapter 2, "INFORMIX-ESQL/C Data Types."
For information about SQL data types, see the
Informix Guide to SQL: Reference
.
Informix-ESQL/C Programmer's Manual
, version 9.1
Copyright © 1998, Informix Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
