Re: New version of money type

From: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New version of money type
Date: 2006-09-14 18:04:58
Message-ID: 20060914140458.f04938b7.darcy@druid.net
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:33:19 -0700
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > By the way, I removed the currency symbol from the output. Would
> > removing the commas also make sense? These are the sorts of things
> > that can be added by applications.
>
> I don't think that we should be providing *any* presentation beyond the
> actual representation of the data. What if it is not US dollars? :)

That's what locale is for. It looks at that to determine that sort of
stuff including currency symbol before I removed it.

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