On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:22, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On August 19, 2002 11:58 pm, Rod Taylor wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:50, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > The simple fix is to drop the money type entirely as it serves few > > purposes -- but there are some who use it. > > As the original creator of the type I probably have the most emotional > attachment to it but even I am thinking of dropping its use. I would have > preferred to fix it (more automatic casts and 64 bit storage as well as the
> But maybe I'm wrong and the hit will be negligible. It wouldn't fix this particular problem anyway :) -- so I'm going to vote to keep it. Though for my own work I've created a money domain due to lack of digits with the type -- not to mention I needed to store hundredths of a cent. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])