| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Fixes for MONEY type using locale |
| Date: | 2007-11-27 03:04:51 |
| Message-ID: | 9506.1196132691@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Well if we are going to continue to support money (which I am against)
> we should support the casting to numeric as that is by far a more
> common implementation of money and we will have mixed environments.
So, you don't use MONEY, and you don't want to, but nonetheless you
know better than the people who do use MONEY what they need.
Aside from the semantic-gap issue, there is the point that providing
a cast might actually mask application errors. I can well imagine
cases where one of the reasons for using MONEY is *exactly* that it's
not a plain number or easily convertible to one.
regards, tom lane
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