Rounding Floating-Point Values
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When you run this plugin, it changes tons of floating-point values throughout the database (by rounding the numbers), which are completely unrelated to the replace string itself. i.e. do a phpMyAdmin export, run a search/replace, do another export, then diff the .sql files. There are hundreds & hundreds of changes unrelated to the replace string – from rounded timestamps of akismet_history entries in the commentmeta table to rounded values stored by plugins in the options table to camera metadata values stored in attachment meta. While *some* of these roundings may be “harmless,” at best it makes it impossible to check the diff for relevant changes. At worst, rounding could affect functionality of things like plugins.
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