[GEODE-9550] Native Client user guide: warn against floating point values in keys

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.13.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.4, 1.13.4, 1.14.0, 1.15.0
• Component/s: docs, native client
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Dave Barnes
• Reporter: Dave Barnes
• Created: 25/Aug/21 18:20
• Updated: 24/Feb/22 19:48
• Resolved: 25/Aug/21 21:30

Description

Request from a community member:

You should NEVER use a floating point value as a key, or key component, but for some reason we allow it.
Since this can't be prevented in code, warn against this practice in the docs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #857
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #859