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Re: Money type not gone?

Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

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From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-09-20T09:42:34Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 08:36 +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 15:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> 
> >  I want to rewrite it for 8.1 as numeric based datetype with some
> > formatting extension probably with some internal stuff from to_char()
> > familly.
> 
> How about a type that is also able to hold an ISO currency identifier?

My idea is special internal API that will usable for new datetypes
programming if type is defined as "numeric + symbol", for example things
like speed, weight, currency.. etc.

	Karel

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Karel Zak
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