Re: New version of money type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: New version of money type
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Msg-id 20060914140458.f04938b7.darcy@druid.net
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In response to Re: New version of money type  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: New version of money type  (AgentM <agentm@themactionfaction.com>)
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:33:19 -0700
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > By the way, I removed the currency symbol from the output.  Would
> > removing the commas also make sense?  These are the sorts of things
> > that can be added by applications.
> 
> I don't think that we should be providing *any* presentation beyond the 
> actual representation of the data. What if it is not US dollars? :)

That's what locale is for.  It looks at that to determine that sort of
stuff including currency symbol before I removed it.

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