On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:18:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Also, there's the issue of converting > > the arguments to a typmod, in the long term it'd have to be > > user-defined per type. > > I think we could legislate that the stored typmod is the same as what > the user sees (and can't be negative). The fact that it's different > for some of the built-in types is a historical artifact that I'd love > to get rid of.
But that makes NUMERIC(x,y) impossible to represent. That probably ok I guess. I was just wondering if it would be reasonable to allow users to create a currency type whose precision can be specified the same way as for numeric. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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