Re: monetary data

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: John Browne <jkbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: monetary data
Date: 2005-06-09 19:46:41
Message-ID: 42A89CA1.2050806@commandprompt.com
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John Browne wrote:
> I was just curious how you guys implement storage / calculation of
> monetary data in postgresql. The docs say to use the numeric data
> type, but I'm curious what precision is typically defined for storing
> monetary data in the numeric data type.
>

We use numeric(10,2)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Thanks for any info...
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