Why avoid using a bigint column storing cents? Matt
On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 9:29:51 AM UTC-6, evan wrote: > > c# has a decimal type that i can map my numeric(12,2) column data type to, > but golang doesnt have a decimal type. > > i'm trying to avoid storing money values as cents then converting them to > dollar values when needed, and > also would like to stay close to using database/sql's standard API as much > as possible. > > would i be able to meet these needs by maybe using > https://godoc.org/github.com/lib/pq for most of my needs, > and then maybe using pgx's custom Decimal / Numeric type ( > https://godoc.org/github.com/jackc/pgx/pgtype) > to facilitate currency value processing? > > could anybody with experience doing something like this share their > experience(s) and suggestion(s) with me? > > thank you for helping! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
