Re: No migration path for MONEY - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: No migration path for MONEY
Date
Msg-id 200302141942.h1EJgtl29503@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: No migration path for MONEY  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-bugs
Could we use DOMAIN to make MONEY an alias for NUMERIC, perhaps using
locale to make it customized, somehow?

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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.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net
>
>

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