I'm not sure of the design rationale behind including options to specify
variants of integers, but not floats. We already have SmallIntegerField,
IntegerField, and BigIntegerField. Why is this not in the same line of
thinking?
I might as well justify my use case a little more: I am building a
I have a Django project that uses the database to store a large number of
sensor readings. I use FloatField to store these, which maps to a double
precision float in the database. This is a waste of space, because the
sensors themselves are only accurately to a few decimal places. If I
switched
