sidorares/node-mysql2 — pull request #100 by danieljuhl (2014-04-30 10:05:02+00:00)
Title: parseFloat on DECIMAL and NEWDECIMAL types to have them as numbers

I suggest that we treat DECIMAL and NEWDECIMAL as numbers instead of strings. But as far as I can see, it is a string when it is coming from MySQL, so we still have to read it as a string.