Re: [HACKERS] The Accountant is not Amused - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aaron J. Seigo
Subject Re: [HACKERS] The Accountant is not Amused
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Msg-id 99120509164000.29522@stilborne
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In response to The Accountant is not Amused  (Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>)
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hi.


> Is this fixed in later versions?  If not, should I send in a patch?
> 
>     -Michael Robinson
> 
<SNIPPED OUT LOTS OF MONEY DATA TYPE STUFF>

apparently, the money time is deprecated and will be going the way of the
dinosaurs someday soon (so threaten the developers)

we used the money data type extensively in an installation i run... with the
news of money going out of style however =) we switched to numeric(9,2) which
works quite well...

still some quirks with numeric: no money->numeric (surprise), int2 doesn't play
well with numeric (but converts easily to int4 which does)...

it took me 2 days to rid our system of money and update all our code... and now
it works much nicer, too!

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Sys Admin


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