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

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
fixes in the current thread) but I seem to be alone so it hardly seems worth
it. I still think that there is some benefit to being able to do integer
arithmetic though. I know that I do a lot of calculations (mostly sums) on
money and going to numeric is going to be a hit. No matter how efficient it
is it can't be as efficient as a cpu register addition.

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

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