Re: cast from integer to money - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: cast from integer to money
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Msg-id 411C71DF-861A-44DF-BC2D-B3DCE9418B20@gmail.com
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In response to Re: cast from integer to money  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Mar 31, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Kevin Grittner (Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov) wrote:
>> If you're just talking about going in the one direction, I might be
>> persuaded that's sane, especially because of the case of literals,
>> and especially since there are currencies where fractional amounts
>> aren't used in the conventional representation.
> 
> Going just integer->money, with the "1" -> "$1.00", seems completely
> reasonable to me.  As for being too late in the cycle..  if someone's
> willing to do the work, I can't imagine it breaking anything, so I
> wouldn't be against putting it in.  It really should be before the
> first beta tho.

Agreed, emphatically.

...Robert


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