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Re: Money type not gone?

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>

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From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-09-20T08:36:27Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
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?
After a long period of work on multi currency applications, I found out 
that adding 1 USD and 1 EUR won't give a good result...

Regards,
Andreas