From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] A real currency type |
Date: | 2006-03-21 18:05:54 |
Message-ID: | 20060321180554.GJ15742@pervasive.com |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:39:09AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce, Martijin,
>
> > > This looks very interesting. Should we add it to the core distribution?
> >
> > Excellent question. As yet I have received very little feedback on it,
> > though it does work as advertised. I have had some people complain that
> > while they'd like to use it (especially the timestamp-that-remembers-
> > the-timezone), they don't like the idea of an external module.
>
> So, how about adding it to contrib for one version?
ISTM that having a currency type is pretty common for most databases; I
don't really see any reason not to just include it. Likewise for a type
that actually stores timezone info with a timestamp.
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