Re: [HACKERS] Money type display

I say remove it. It has only caused problems for me. Also, what
about the convention of only having a $ in the first & last rows
instead of all in between. there should at least be a handy function
for converting the output (other than string manipulation) should the
$ be left on..

On Fri, 27 February 1998, at 08:45:09, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> I wonder if I didn't make a mistake in the money type. As a C library
> function it made sense to add the "$" to the display because it was
> easy to add one to the return value if it wasn't required. I'm finding
> it to be a bit of a problem with my Python interface. I was just
> going to strip it in my module but I thought I would see if others
> felt that it should simply be dropped from the PostgreSQL output.
>
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