Re: Alternative to "Money" ...

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Chris Gamache <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alternative to "Money" ...
Date: 2004-01-30 20:31:22
Message-ID: 20040130203122.GA1488@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:55:13 -0800,
Chris Gamache <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Well, after living with the (depreciated) Money datatype for 5 years, I think
> its finally time to say goodbye (and now that we have DROP COLUMN it'll be MUCH
> easier transition). What's the preferred monetary datatype? numeric(10,2)?
> float4? float8? We're dealing only with US Dollars.

You probably just want plain numeric.

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