From: Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni@kymi.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: double precision vs. numeric
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:12:58 +0300
Message-ID: <200608250812.58794.aarni@kymi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7131.1156440586@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200608241936.50752.aarni@kymi.com>
<7131.1156440586@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Thursday 24 August 2006 20:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> Aarni =?iso-8859-1?q?Ruuhim=E4ki?= <aarni@kymi.com> writes:
> > I vaguely remember having seen a message
> > ' ... type double precision ... will be depreciated / unsupported in
> > future releases ... '
> > or something like that somewhere. (?)
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of type "money"? DOUBLE PRECISION is in the
> SQL standard, it's certainly not going anywhere.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
Well, I have used it for 'money type' like sums and prices but I have never
used the actual "money" data type.
So, false alarm.
Thank you guys !
Aarni
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