From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Fixes for MONEY type using locale |
Date: | 2007-11-27 05:50:24 |
Message-ID: | 200711270550.lAR5oOv28603@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Well if we are going to continue to support money (which I am against)
> > we should support the casting to numeric as that is by far a more
> > common implementation of money and we will have mixed environments.
>
> So, you don't use MONEY, and you don't want to, but nonetheless you
> know better than the people who do use MONEY what they need.
>
> Aside from the semantic-gap issue, there is the point that providing
> a cast might actually mask application errors. I can well imagine
> cases where one of the reasons for using MONEY is *exactly* that it's
> not a plain number or easily convertible to one.
Right. I am not thinking of an auto-cast but rather give people _some_
way to cast to/from MONEY, which is what the TODO says:
* Allow MONEY to be cast to/from other numeric data types
Even when we have multiple currency designations I would think people
would need a way to cast. I am trying to anticpate how MONEY will be
used. You are right we don't have any field requests yet, but I am
expecting them.
I have added documentation on the issues of casting to/from MONEY;
patch attached and applied.
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