Re: monetary bug

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: monetary bug
Date: 2004-08-22 19:57:03
Message-ID: 200408222157.03068.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it,
> instead. Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin
> layer over "numeric", with most likely no operations of its own
> except I/O conversion.

And what would it do with it? Add a currency symbol? Which one? Which
form? Where? Format the numbers some way? Sounds like a big mess.
Drop it and use to_char.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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