Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On fre, 2010-07-16 at 10:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The other argument that I found convincing was that if the
>> operator was defined to yield numeric, people might think that
>> the result was exact ... which of course it won't be, either way.
>> Choosing float8 helps to remind the user it's an approximate quotient.
> Why is it approximate? Aren't money values really integers?
1/3 is going to yield an approximate result either way.
regards, tom lane