| From: | darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain) |
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| To: | thomas(at)pgsql(dot)com |
| Cc: | jmcgraw(at)databill(dot)com (Joel Mc Graw), pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Python interface and Money? |
| Date: | 2001-10-25 11:49:30 |
| Message-ID: | 20011025114931.9BA271A6B@druid.net |
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Thus spake Thomas Lockhart
> > > While browsing the mailing list for an answer to this problem I found
> > > several references to the money type being deprecated. Is that the
> > > problem?
> > They keep saying that DECIMAL should be used instead but they are not
> > exactly equivalent. The MONEY type was originally written with locale
> > support and displays the local currency symbol.
>
> Hmm. If we keep the money type then we should change the internal
> implementation to use numeric or decimal or at least int64 instead of
> int32. Comments?
Definitely int64. Originally I wrote it as long for portability but I
think that the time has come to assume that everything that PostgreSQL
runs on can support 64 bit.
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