Re: dividing money by money - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: dividing money by money
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In response to Re: dividing money by money  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: dividing money by money
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On fre, 2010-07-16 at 10:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other argument that I found convincing was that if the
> operator was defined to yield numeric, people might think that
> the result was exact ... which of course it won't be, either way.
> Choosing float8 helps to remind the user it's an approximate quotient.

Why is it approximate?  Aren't money values really integers?



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