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Hm... maybe this is a non-issue. I just saw that $s = "4.5"; p $s
will print 4.5 (without quotes)
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The entire point of the field is to store it as a number and allow numeric operations. We aren't losing any precision by not representing it as a string.
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perl cannot correctly compare 1.000000000000000000001 with 1.000000000000000000002 numerically. That's why I say we lose precision if we get numbers back for this field.
On the other hand if perl is handed those values as strings and inserts them in a mysql database field of type DECIMAL(42,21), then mysql can compare those numbers, sort them, or whatever, with no precision lost.
Does anyone lose anything if these values are strings?
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You lose the ability to perform numeric comparisons on it in elasticsearch, which is the entire reason for the field's existence.
PAUSE already limits version numbers to 16 characters long.
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this is not a client issue, as explained by @haarg this ES mapping of the field as 'float'.
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