Re: [HACKERS] Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-05 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> IMHO use numeric and some formatting routine is good idea (better than > current money datetype..) The "money" type implementation was a workaround/hack to make up for the lack of a "numeric" type. I've always assumed that it would be removed as soon as numeric was available and fast enough to

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-05 Thread Karel Zak
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Dave Mertens wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:39:29AM -0500, Mitch Vincent wrote: > > What's the standard on Money type (if there is one) and if it doesn't > > include the $ (of course that would change based on what currency you were > > using) then is it any different th

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-03 Thread Dave Mertens
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:39:29AM -0500, Mitch Vincent wrote: > What's the standard on Money type (if there is one) and if it doesn't > include the $ (of course that would change based on what currency you were > using) then is it any different than numeric(9,2)? numeric(9,2) is what I > use for