Re: Fwd: [TESTERS] [TEST REPORT] 9.1Alpha3 Feature E.1.4.7.2 in release notes.

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [TESTERS] [TEST REPORT] 9.1Alpha3 Feature E.1.4.7.2 in release notes.
Date: 2011-01-11 17:04:00
Message-ID: 1294765440.17361.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2011-01-11 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We explicitly
> rejected the idea of providing direct casts to/from floating point
> types, on the grounds of not wanting any roundoff error; so I don't
> think this is a point that should be revisited.

We also explicitly chose floating point as the result of the money/money
operator over numeric. Seems a bit inconsistent.

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