Re: BUG #18240: Undefined behaviour in cash_mul_flt8() and friends - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: BUG #18240: Undefined behaviour in cash_mul_flt8() and friends
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Msg-id 95e42d647797220ae2c2e0574caef3643e641f03.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: BUG #18240: Undefined behaviour in cash_mul_flt8() and friends  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, 2023-12-24 at 13:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> > I'm of the strong opinion that we should get rid of money. I personally
> > haven't encountered it in the wild -- I'm sure it's there, but it seems
> > limited -- and most apps that seriously deal with money will either user
> > either "numeric" or an integer-based type.
>
> Yeah, maybe we should just do it.  I was pleasantly surprised by how
> little push-back we got from nuking the 32-bit datetime types a few
> releases ago; perhaps this one would likewise not have much of a
> constituency.

There are questions on Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpostgresql%5D+money

But of course it is hard to say if these are production uses or just
experiments.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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