On August 19, 2002 11:58 pm, Rod Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:50, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > The simple fix is to drop the money type entirely as it serves few > purposes -- but there are some who use it.
As the original creator of the type I probably have the most emotional attachment to it but even I am thinking of dropping its use. I would have preferred to fix it (more automatic casts and 64 bit storage as well as the fixes in the current thread) but I seem to be alone so it hardly seems worth it. I still think that there is some benefit to being able to do integer arithmetic though. I know that I do a lot of calculations (mostly sums) on money and going to numeric is going to be a hit. No matter how efficient it is it can't be as efficient as a cpu register addition. But maybe I'm wrong and the hit will be negligible. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])