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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Alessandro Depetro <alex@mamcoop.it>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: smallfloat with postgresql
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:42:33 -0500
Message-ID: <20030828034233.GF7185@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030826232609.M33535@mamcoop.it>
References: <20030826232609.M33535@mamcoop.it>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:31:23 +0200,
  Alessandro Depetro <alex@mamcoop.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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