Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete
Date: 2017-12-12 16:01:04
Message-ID: 1420.1513094464@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Long story short, I don't think anyone cares about this enough to
> spend effort fixing it. I suspect the money data type has very few
> users.

Somebody did contribute the effort not too long ago to install that
overflow check into cash_in. So maybe somebody will step up and fix
the other money functions. I can't get too excited about it in the
meantime.

regards, tom lane

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