Re: Money data type in PostgreSQL?

From: Graham Leggett <minfrin(at)sharp(dot)fm>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Money data type in PostgreSQL?
Date: 2003-12-05 12:39:42
Message-ID: 3FD07C8E.5060108@sharp.fm
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Jan Wieck wrote:

> You won't get any rounding errors in NUMERIC either. What people should
> be concerned of is to find an arbitrary precision package for the
> frontend programming language they're using.

What is the definition of a numeric number? I understand (from studying
numeric methods all those years ago) that the base 10 decimal number 0.1
cannot be stored exactly in base 2 floating point, thus my use of
integers - is numeric an arbitrary precision concept?

Regards,
Graham
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