Re: Fwd: [TESTERS] [TEST REPORT] 9.1Alpha3 Feature E.1.4.7.2 in release notes. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Fwd: [TESTERS] [TEST REPORT] 9.1Alpha3 Feature E.1.4.7.2 in release notes.
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Msg-id 1294765440.17361.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Fwd: [TESTERS] [TEST REPORT] 9.1Alpha3 Feature E.1.4.7.2 in release notes.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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.



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