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Re: monetary bug

Dennis Björklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>

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From: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>, Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi@yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-23T12:52:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Karel Zak wrote:

>  I  think it's  pretty extendable  solution in  contrast to  the current
>  hardcoded  in/out  datetypes  functions.

Who are we formatting for? If the client wants the data in a specific
format then they can do SELECT to_char(...), or do the formatting in the
client all together.

If some client wants to render the column value as a bitmap image, let
them.  We don't need to build in everything a client wants to do in the
server.

The database should manage data, presenting it to the user in different 
ways are the job of a client.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund