Re: Money type mapping to backend

From: "Bill Hutto" <bill(at)hammondgroves(dot)com>
To: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: "pgsql-interfaces(at)hub(dot)org" <pgsql-interfaces(at)hub(dot)org>, Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>, "Ken J(dot) Wright" <ken(at)ori-ind(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Money type mapping to backend
Date: 1999-01-08 13:58:10
Message-ID: 199901081859.NAA47896@osage.gate.net
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> > Hey, guess what, I was testing the whole time under Postgres 6.3 and
> > it does not require the quotes around money type!
> > Only postgres 6.4 requires the quotes!
> > That seems kind of weird. Anyone got any comments?
>
> otoh, with the NUMERIC() and DECIMAL() types implemented by Jan, the
> money type is completely and absolutely obsolete in the next release
> afaik. Once we get these new types working on all platforms (I've got
> troubles on my linux box; anyone else have success on non-BSD machines?)
> we can think about a migration/compatibility strategy...

I figure if the Numeric and Decimal types are coming pretty soon, I'm
probably going to wait and see how they work. If it works according
to my docs, the Numeric will map straight to the Jet's Currency
type (scaled integer), and hopefully there won't be any quote
problems. That would be perfect. Thanks for your help guys, nice
job, and I look forward to this upgrade.

Cheers,
Bill

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