From: | Thomas Good <tomg(at)sqlclinic(dot)net> |
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To: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Cc: | Postgres SQL List <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] Function for adding Money type |
Date: | 2003-01-26 13:48:01 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0301260846450.2789-100000@q8.nrnet.org |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> This year, my team is planning on improving the MONEY type. Of course, we can
> always make it a user defined type if PostgreSQL doesn't want it. We will at
> least put it into contrib. However, if people think that it is useful and
> want to leave it in the main tree that's good too. What we want to do is a)
> switch to a 64 bit integer from a 32 bit integer in order to hold amounts of
> any reasonabe size and b) allow it to be cast to and from more types.
> Perhaps we can also add the ability to specify the number of decimal places
> on output but I am not sure if that would affect the primary benefit of using
> it, speed.
Hey good news D'Arcy! I prefer using MONEY as well.
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