| From: | "Xiaofeng Zhao" <xf10036(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, <tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de> |
| Cc: | "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New version of money type |
| Date: | 2006-09-30 15:36:04 |
| Message-ID: | BAY124-DAV154E760669E4587E797CBAE5190@phx.gbl |
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> I feel silly for even mentioning this, but there are less than 256
> countries in the UN, and as far as I know, each has at most one
> currency, so you could use 8 bits instead of 15.
>
That's not always true, e.g. China has RMB and HKD. Also Taiwan is not a
member country of UN but I don't think one would exclude TWD.
There'll also times a country may transit from one currency to another.
Even a currency (currency of most continental European countries before
Euro) is no more being used, it may still need to be supported.
xz
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