[Rd] RS-DBI does not recognized MySQL decimals (PR#8723)

[jtrimble at bodymedia.com]

Full_Name: Jason Trimble
Version: 2.2.1
OS: Windows XP and RedHat EL4
Submission from: (NULL) (209.166.128.18)


Whenever a MySQL query returns a Decimal result to R I get the following warning
in R: 

Warning message:RS-DBI driver warning: (unrecognized MySQL field type 246 in
column 1)

I get this for a simple query like “SELECT 2, 2.5” 
anything that returns a
decimal!

Application version are:
R ver 2.1.1
RMySQL ver. 0.5-7
DBI ver. 0.1-10
MySQL  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.18.