Re: strange sum behaviour

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange sum behaviour
Date: 2006-08-30 00:01:24
Message-ID: 44F4D554.5070803@commandprompt.com
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Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Seneca Cunningham wrote:
>> On 29-Aug-2006, at 13:13 :48, Andrew Baerg wrote:
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>> Take a look at <http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decifaq.html> for
>> some information about why you should be using numeric for your amount
>> column.
>
> So how does PG implement Decimal?

As mentioned above, please look at numeric. :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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