Re: BCD format

stefari@tiscali.it wrote:
> Hi all !
> I have to create a table with a BCD formatted field.
> Can Postrgresql to support this field's type or I have to insert it in binary
> mode???

Have you considered using a NUMERIC field instead?  That supports
exact fixed point arithmetic, much like BCD.

And I don't think that C compilers commonly support a BCD type, so if
you emulated it, you'd be left doing quite a lot of work to make a
type that wouldn't be terribly efficient.
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