Re: smallfloat with postgresql

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Alessandro Depetro <alex(at)mamcoop(dot)it>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: smallfloat with postgresql
Date: 2003-08-28 03:42:33
Message-ID: 20030828034233.GF7185@wolff.to
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:31:23 +0200,
Alessandro Depetro <alex(at)mamcoop(dot)it> wrote:
>
> so, Can I safely use NUMERIC as a data type for monetary computation instead
> of smallfloat ???

NUMERIC represents decimal numbers exactly so is suitable for monetary
types using even decimal fractions.

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