Re: [GENERAL] A real currency type

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>This looks very interesting.  Should we add it to the core
>>distribution?
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>I think such types would be better implemented as some sort of 
>structured type, possibly with constructors and methods and all the 
>other stuff that SQL talks about.  We don't have all of that yet -- 
>maybe we don't need all of it immediately -- but before we start 
>endorsing many of these types I'd like to see some consideration given 
>to this issue.
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Yeah, looks interesting but let's find the wrinkles. I was wondering if 
it might have relevance to what I wanted to do with enumeration types, 
i.e. we would tag each one with its particular enumeration id.

I also don't like the idea of it being done with user tables - if this 
is core material then the tags should go in the catalog, ISTM.

cheers

andrew