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From Christophe Pettus
Subject Re: How useful is the money datatype?
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In response to Re: How useful is the money datatype?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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A quick check of the source code (src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c)
shows it's base 10000, each "digit" represented as an int16.  It's not
strictly speaking BCD, but there's no computational difference.

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