On tis, 2011-01-11 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We explicitly
> rejected the idea of providing direct casts to/from floating point
> types, on the grounds of not wanting any roundoff error; so I don't
> think this is a point that should be revisited.
We also explicitly chose floating point as the result of the money/money
operator over numeric. Seems a bit inconsistent.