Re: function to format floats as money? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From John Hasler
Subject Re: function to format floats as money?
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Msg-id 874rvntghl.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org
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In response to Re: function to format floats as money?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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I wrote:
> Floats are fine for money as long as you only add and subtract and don't
> deal in amounts that won't fit in the mantissa.

Ross writes:
> Or you're writing software in Germany (all of the EU now?) that _might_ get
> used in an offical capacity.

I was referring to what actually works, not to what might or might not meet
with the approval of some officialdom or other.  The two seldom bear any
discernible relationship.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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