| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] money data type and conversions |
| Date: | 1999-06-23 05:44:20 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.19990622224420.00e4aa14@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 01:52 AM 6/23/99 +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>NUMERIC and DECIMAL are (or should be, if there are rough edges since
>they are so new) are the SQL92-way to represent currency. And, they
>are compatible with all different conventions, since you can set the
>decimal place and size of the fractional part as you want.
This is an excellent point. The portable and standard numeric
and decimal types are the way to go.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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