| From: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
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| To: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jean-Paul ARGUDO <jean-paul(dot)argudo(at)IDEALX(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle vs PostgreSQL in real life : NEWS!!! |
| Date: | 2002-03-02 15:47:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20020302154737.10A8D1BBC@druid.net |
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On March 2, 2002 09:02 am, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> writes:
> > Any chance you can try it with the MONEY type? It does use integers to
> > store the data. It isn't really designed for general numeric use but it
> > would be interesting to see how it fares.
>
> I think the MONEY type is deprecated...
I keep hearing that but I use it heavily and I hope it never goes away. The
NUMERIC type is nice but I still think that the MONEY type works well for
certain things. I bet it will be shown to be more efficient. Certainly
it has limitations but within those limitations it works well.
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