On P, 2004-08-22 at 23:07, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it,
> >> instead. Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin
> >> layer over "numeric", with most likely no operations of its own
> >> except I/O conversion.
>
> > And what would it do with it? Add a currency symbol? Which one? Which
> > form? Where? Format the numbers some way?
>
> The idea behind the money type is to format per the lc_monetary locale
> setting, which seems perfectly reasonable to me.
so if you put in $1.00 using en_US.UTF8 then another user using en_CA
would get 1.00CAD and I would get 1.00 EEK ?
It does make /some/ sense - I would be all for that if this is the sum I
mus pay, but object strongly if the sum must be paid *to* me ;)
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Hannu