On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:02:56 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The money data type has been deprecated for years. It is completely non > standard and essentially duplicative of numeric/decimal. What is the > point?
It may be deprecated (maybe not) and it may have drawbacks but it is not a duplication of numeric or decimal. While numeric/decimal may be faster for I/O, money is faster for doing large sums. Depending on your needs it does have an advantage over numeric. That said, I wonder if there is another answer to this question. Perhaps the functions in cash.c can be pulled out and made into external functions that can be fed an int (long) and output the desired format. That way we could use the existing int or long type but convert manually on I/O. Let people choose whether they want the simplification of the money type or the standardization allowed by just using the functions. Just a thought. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 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 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
