From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200301272014.h0RKEvH27942@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Function for adding Money type
In-Reply-To: <1043596980.29189.10.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:14:57 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, josh@agliodbs.com,
	ddurst@larubber.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 13:53, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> 
> > This year, my team is planning on improving the MONEY type.  Of course, we can 
> > always make it a user defined type if PostgreSQL doesn't want it.  We will at 
> > least put it into contrib.  However, if people think that it is useful and 
> > want to leave it in the main tree that's good too.  What we want to do is a) 
> > switch to a 64 bit integer from a 32 bit integer in order to hold amounts of 
> > any reasonabe size and b) allow it to be cast to and from more types.  
> > Perhaps we can also add the ability to specify the number of decimal places 
> > on output but I am not sure if that would affect the primary benefit of using 
> > it, speed.
> 
> A money type needs to specify what currency is held.  The current one
> changes the currency with the locale, which makes nonsense of existing
> data.

Agreed.  We can default to locale but need a way of overriding that,
ideally with atttypmod at the column level.  I assume this will be done
for 7.4 (you said "this year")?

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