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Re: Re: [PORTS] the 'money' type

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>

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From: Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>
To: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-27T16:31:03Z
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> > Thus spake Adam Fenn
> > > Where can I find some documentation on how to use the money data type in
> > > pgsql?
> > 
> > I never did get around to that.  The code has some explanations.  There
> > isn't really much.  You create a type as money and you can assign values
> > such as '$123,456.78' (dollar sign optional) to it and it displays it


ARRRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Another example where a nice feature has been
introduced but not documented! THERE IS NO POINT in having features if
people don't know how to use them.

Is this now documented????


Andrew

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