On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:35:03 -0400
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> For years I have been promising that a 64 bit version of the money type
> was on the way. Here it is. So far it compiles and I have done some
> basic testing on it and it seems to work fine. Note that the currency
> symbol is also dropped on output as well but it is accepted on input.
>
> darcy=# select '$92,233,720,368,547,758.07'::money;
> money
> ----------------------------
> 92,233,720,368,547,758.07
There has been plenty of discussion back and forth but still no ruling
from core. Is money out in the next release in which case I can
convert this to a contrib module or will this improvement be accepted
for the next release.
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