I have set up currency as single precision and it seems to work between
MS-Acces 97 and pgsql v7.
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From: "Michael Davis" <mdavis(at)sevainc(dot)com>
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Sent: January 03, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] Numeric and money
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am in the process of migrating my Access97 application to PostgreSQL.
So
> far everything looks great with one exception. I converted my currency
> fields in Access to numeric(9,2) as recommended in the PostgreSQL
> documentation. Many things to don't play well with the numeric the data
> type. Here are some examples:
>
> create table tst (id int, amount numeric(9,2));
> insert into tst values (1, 1.10);
> insert into tst values (2, 1.00);
> insert into tst values (2, 2.00);
> select * from tst where amount = 1; -- works
> select * from tst where amount = 1.1; -- fails
> select * from tst where amount = 1.10; -- fails
> select amount::varchar from tst; -- fails
> select amount::money from tst; -- fails
> select id || ', ' || id from tst; -- works
> select id || ', ' || amount from tst; -- fails
>
> >From within Access, I can't update any table with a numeric data type
> because of the "select * from tst where amount = 1.1;" failure. These
> limitations have caused me to wonder what other PostgreSQL users are using
> for their money values? Is numeric(9,2) the best choice for money? I
> think that adding numeric to text and text to numeric operators will fix
> most of these issues. I plan to add these operators very soon and thought
> I would ask if anyone has done this before and could provide me an example
> or two before I start. Does anyone know of any internal functions that
> already exist to convert numeric to text so that I don't have to write
one?
> I know that psql successfully does this.
>
> Thanks, Michael Davis
> Database Architect and Senior Software Engineer, Seva Inc.
> Office: 303-460-7360 Fax: 303-460-7362
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> Email: mdavis(at)sevainc(dot)com
>
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