Re: Number Conversion Function

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)living-examples(dot)com>, Abdul Rehman <abr_ora(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Number Conversion Function
Date: 2009-04-13 18:40:51
Message-ID: 49E38733.1010402@wildenhain.de
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justin wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)living-examples(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> I would not recommend to do this within the database. Thats typical
>>> a job for your presentation layer.
>>>
>>
>> ... but having said that, I think the "money" datatype has a function
>> for this. Whether that's of any use to you I dunno; money is pretty
>> restrictive about what it can handle.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>
> I disagree the database is the wrong place, there are cases it makes sense.
>
Which cases would that be?

Regards
Tino

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