ingres_field_scale() returns the scale of a field. This value is used only for the decimal SQL data type. For detailed information, see the Ingres/OpenAPI User Guide - Appendix C.
index is the number of the field and must be between 1 and the value given by ingres_num_fields().
See also ingres_query(), ingres_fetch_array(), ingres_fetch_object(), and ingres_fetch_row().