Re: Alternative to "Money" ... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Alternative to "Money" ...
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Msg-id 20040130203122.GA1488@wolff.to
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In response to Alternative to "Money" ...  (Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Alternative to "Money" ...  (Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>)
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:55:13 -0800,
  Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, after living with the (depreciated) Money datatype for 5 years, I think
> its finally time to say goodbye (and now that we have DROP COLUMN it'll be MUCH
> easier transition). What's the preferred monetary datatype? numeric(10,2)?
> float4? float8? We're dealing only with US Dollars.

You probably just want plain numeric.

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