X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02533D1B8BD for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 03:37:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30490-07 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:36:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.249.74]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75FF3D1B96E for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:36:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 7540 invoked by uid 500); 28 Aug 2003 03:42:33 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:42:33 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Alessandro Depetro Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: smallfloat with postgresql Message-ID: <20030828034233.GF7185@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Alessandro Depetro , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <20030826232609.M33535@mamcoop.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030826232609.M33535@mamcoop.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200308/336 X-Sequence-Number: 14952 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:31:23 +0200, Alessandro Depetro 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.