Obtain floating-point type information

The provides functions to obtain the precision of a floating-point DECIMAL (DECIMAL(p)).

Table 1. functions that obtain the precision of a floating-point DECIMAL
Source functions
For a data type mi_type_precision()
For a UDR argument mi_fp_argprec(), mi_fp_setargprec()
For a UDR return value mi_fp_retprec(), mi_fp_setretprec()
For a column mi_column_precision()
For an input parameter in a prepared statement mi_parameter_precision()
Tip: The FLOAT and SMALLFLOAT data types do not have precision and scale values.