| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andy Balholm <andy(at)balholm(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: dividing money by money |
| Date: | 2010-07-17 10:20:54 |
| Message-ID: | 1279362054.17928.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On fre, 2010-07-16 at 10:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other argument that I found convincing was that if the
> operator was defined to yield numeric, people might think that
> the result was exact ... which of course it won't be, either way.
> Choosing float8 helps to remind the user it's an approximate quotient.
Why is it approximate? Aren't money values really integers?
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