Re: Money type not gone?

From: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Money type not gone?
Date: 2004-09-20 09:42:34
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On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 08:36 +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 15:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
>
> > I want to rewrite it for 8.1 as numeric based datetype with some
> > formatting extension probably with some internal stuff from to_char()
> > familly.
>
> How about a type that is also able to hold an ISO currency identifier?

My idea is special internal API that will usable for new datetypes
programming if type is defined as "numeric + symbol", for example things
like speed, weight, currency.. etc.

Karel

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