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  1. Re: [HACKERS] Money type display

    Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-02-27T15:50:33Z

    > I wonder if I didn't make a mistake in the money type.  As a C library
    > function it made sense to add the "$" to the display because it was
    > easy to add one to the return value if it wasn't required.  I'm finding
    > it to be a bit of a problem with my Python interface.  I was just
    > going to strip it in my module but I thought I would see if others
    > felt that it should simply be dropped from the PostgreSQL output.
    > 
    Remove it! Those of us who aren't American/Canadian/Australian don't want 
    a dollar sign for money anyway :-)
    
    
    Andrew
    
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