Re: numeric data type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Juan Pablo L.
Subject Re: numeric data type
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Msg-id DUB130-W118E48265AC238B99E7E8DD9450@phx.gbl
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In response to Re: numeric data type  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Hi Alvaro, thank you for your answer,  PG_GETARG_NUMERIC does not exist .. cant find it in the source code and when running i get
undefined symbol: PG_GETARG_NUMERIC.

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:11:26 -0300
> From: alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
> To: jpablolorenzetti@hotmail.com
> CC: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] numeric data type
>
> Juan Pablo L. wrote:
> > thank you for your answer, the function is declared as:
> >
> > FUNCTION wtt_discount_account(IN in_phonenumber varchar(20),IN in_balanceid integer,IN in_chgval numeric(10,2))
> >
> > i chose numeric because is supposed to be better for numbers/money operations, supposed to be exact,
> > i would not want to loose precision because that is money, is there any other way which does not
> > involve loosing precision ? thankS!!
>
> What you need is to use PG_GETARG_NUMERIC, then, and use a Numeric *
> variable rather than float8.
>
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> Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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