Intresting thing. I never thought it is so loose.
On the other side, I would never use double for currency calculations.
It provides instability to results due to floating point precision.
However due to this:
/Thescaleof anumericis the count of decimal digits in the fractional
part, to the r
Dear pg's support and Alexander
Allow me to quote this reference from :
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/datatype-numeric.html
"The type numeric can store numbers with a very large number of digits and
perform calculations exactly. It is especially recommended for storing monetary
a
