| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: No migration path for MONEY |
| Date: | 2003-02-14 19:42:55 |
| Message-ID: | 200302141942.h1EJgtl29503@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Could we use DOMAIN to make MONEY an alias for NUMERIC, perhaps using
locale to make it customized, somehow?
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > we need someone to get MONEY working as an extented NUMERIC type.
>
> How would the new "money" be different from "numeric"? If we have
> "money", should we have "length", "mass", and "temperature"? I think not.
> Just let the money type die and that's it.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>
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