On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:24:13PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > we need someone to get MONEY working as an extented NUMERIC type.
>
> How would the new "money" be different from "numeric"? If we have
> "money", should we have "length", "mass", and "temperature"? I think not.
> Just let the money type die and that's it.
Agree. BTW, the correct "money" implementation is very depend on
locales, for example the current implementation is not usable in my
country and our currency. It must be very powerful, an example like
strfmon() in libc. I think numeric and to_char() is useful already
now.
Karel
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