Re: New version of money type

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New version of money type
Date: 2006-09-14 17:33:19
Message-ID: 4509925F.4060602@commandprompt.com
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D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:17:29 -0700
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Obviously ;), but it is deprecated by the project.
>
> I keep hearing that but no action is ever taken. I think that there
> are too many people who still find it useful.
>
> 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? :)

Joshua D. Drake

>

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