Re: New version of money type

Though this may be the kiss of death, I favor a 64 bit float version of money. It's more terse than numeric and a *lot* faster when performing numeric operations because it would use a cpu intrinsic operand.

- Luke

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-----Original Message-----
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain [mailto:darcy(at)druid(dot)net]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:35:03 -0400
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> wrote:
> For years I have been promising that a 64 bit version of the money type
> was on the way. Here it is. So far it compiles and I have done some
> basic testing on it and it seems to work fine. Note that the currency
> symbol is also dropped on output as well but it is accepted on input.
>
> darcy=# select '$92,233,720,368,547,758.07'::money;
> money
> ----------------------------
> 92,233,720,368,547,758.07

There has been plenty of discussion back and forth but still no ruling
from core. Is money out in the next release in which case I can
convert this to a contrib module or will this improvement be accepted
for the next release.

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