If all the calculations are going to be in the database, you can just use strings on the Go side.
Andy > On Jan 7, 2018, at 6:44 AM, evan <gofans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > c# has a decimal type that i can map my numeric(12,2) column data type to, > but golang doesnt have a decimal type. > > i'm trying to avoid storing money values as cents then converting them to > dollar values when needed, and > also would like to stay close to using database/sql's standard API as much as > possible. > > would i be able to meet these needs by maybe using > https://godoc.org/github.com/lib/pq for most of my needs, > and then maybe using pgx's custom Decimal / Numeric type > (https://godoc.org/github.com/jackc/pgx/pgtype) > to facilitate currency value processing? > > could anybody with experience doing something like this share their > experience(s) and suggestion(s) with me? > > thank you for helping! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
