| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #18240: Undefined behaviour in cash_mul_flt8() and friends |
| Date: | 2023-12-25 01:09:12 |
| Message-ID: | 95e42d647797220ae2c2e0574caef3643e641f03.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Sun, 2023-12-24 at 13:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > I'm of the strong opinion that we should get rid of money. I personally
> > haven't encountered it in the wild -- I'm sure it's there, but it seems
> > limited -- and most apps that seriously deal with money will either user
> > either "numeric" or an integer-based type.
>
> Yeah, maybe we should just do it. I was pleasantly surprised by how
> little push-back we got from nuking the 32-bit datetime types a few
> releases ago; perhaps this one would likewise not have much of a
> constituency.
There are questions on Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpostgresql%5D+money
But of course it is hard to say if these are production uses or just
experiments.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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