Re: [GENERAL] A real currency type

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От Jim C. Nasby
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Ответ на Re: [GENERAL] A real currency type  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:39:09AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce, Martijin,
> 
> > > This looks very interesting.  Should we add it to the core distribution?
> >
> > Excellent question. As yet I have received very little feedback on it,
> > though it does work as advertised. I have had some people complain that
> > while they'd like to use it (especially the timestamp-that-remembers-
> > the-timezone), they don't like the idea of an external module.
> 
> So, how about adding it to contrib for one version?

ISTM that having a currency type is pretty common for most databases; I
don't really see any reason not to just include it. Likewise for a type
that actually stores timezone info with a timestamp.
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