Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:22, 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

> But maybe I'm wrong and the hit will be negligible.

It wouldn't fix this particular problem anyway :) -- so I'm going to
vote to keep it.

Though for my own work I've created a money domain due to lack of digits
with the type -- not to mention I needed to store hundredths of a cent.