On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > 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.
I used to use the money tag but someone said it was going away in a future version and to use the numeric type instead. I was under the impression that it was going to be history long before now - it seems I was told this back in 6.3.something. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking http://www.camping-usa.com http://www.cloudninegifts.com http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com ========================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
