Re: New version of money type

From: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: New version of money type
Date: 2006-09-28 20:29:57
Message-ID: C1417ED5.2E8A%llonergan@greenplum.com
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Martijn,

On 9/28/06 12:42 PM, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:

> - Only supports one currency (dollars)

What are the manifestations of this?

> - Only supports one scale (yen has no decimal normally, but what if you
> want to track hundredths of a dollar-cent?)

So, without a quantified benefit, this is certainly a non-starter.

- Luke

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