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Re: monetary bug

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi@yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-22T19:57:03Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it,
> instead. Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin
> layer over "numeric", with most likely no operations of its own
> except I/O conversion.

And what would it do with it?  Add a currency symbol?  Which one?  Which 
form?  Where?  Format the numbers some way?  Sounds like a big mess.  
Drop it and use to_char.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/