Re: Python interface and Money? - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: Python interface and Money?
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Msg-id 3BD6C5C3.7B5F701@fourpalms.org
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In response to Re: Python interface and Money?  (darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain))
Responses Re: Python interface and Money?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Python interface and Money?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> > While browsing the mailing list for an answer to this problem I found
> > several references to the money type being deprecated.  Is that the
> > problem?
> They keep saying that DECIMAL should be used instead but they are not
> exactly equivalent.  The MONEY type was originally written with locale
> support and displays the local currency symbol.

Hmm. If we keep the money type then we should change the internal
implementation to use numeric or decimal or at least int64 instead of
int32. Comments?
                     - Thomas


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