Re: [HACKERS] Datatype MONEY

wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
>    In  some  countries  (Germany  at least) storage of financial
>    booking information is not permitted to use floats.  And  you
>    aren't  allowed  to  use  it  for  calculation of taxes etc.,
>    instead you must use some datatype with a fixable  number  of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    digits after the decimal point.    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*AND* with correct rounding behavior for the least significant digit
(which may not be displayed, as with the U.S. "mil"--one tenth of a 
cent).
-Michael Robinson

P.S. I like the idea of a money type with an internal field for the ISO
currency type.  For all my current applications I have to break that out
as a separate char(3) field (USD, HKD, JPY, RMB, etc.).