From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:01:04 -0500
Message-ID: <1420.1513094464@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Long story short, I don't think anyone cares about this enough to
> spend effort fixing it. I suspect the money data type has very few
> users.
Somebody did contribute the effort not too long ago to install that
overflow check into cash_in. So maybe somebody will step up and fix
the other money functions. I can't get too excited about it in the
meantime.
regards, tom lane
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