Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] money or dollar type

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> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I have thought about this. Just bitmask the 16-bits to two 8-bit
> > quantities. Give you max 256 length with 256 currencies.
>
> Uh, no: what we were discussing was the total width and decimal place
> position of exact numerics. Probably, 255 numeric digits are enough
> for practical purposes, so I don't feel an urgent need to make atttypmod
> wider for this. But if you want to make it 32 bits, that would
> eliminate any concern --- we'd have room for 64k-digit numerics...
>
> If we're going to associate currencies with the money datatype, the
> currency needs to be part of the data, not part of the column type.
> I need to be able to store amounts of different currencies in the same
> column. (Otherwise, a transaction log would need a separate column for
> every possible currency, all but one of which would be null in any given
> row. Ick.)

Yep, good point.

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