Обсуждение: Re: Clarification With Money data type

On 2010-03-10, Navanethan Muthusamy <navanethanmca@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am using Postgresql 8.4, Can you tell me How Can I use Money data type?
it's best not to,  "money" is a fixed-point fromat based on 32 bitintegers, abn it's deprecated.

> I want to store the money and retrieve. Please give me idea to work on that.
for that you use a bank, not a database :) 
> I am using Java with Postgresql, I have tried java.math.BigDecimal with
> Money, but its giving error. (Its asking me to do the casing)

???
it's better to use some sort of numeric

<br /><blockquote cite="mid:hnaare$jh$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx" type="cite"><pre wrap="">
it's better to use some sort of numeric </pre></blockquote><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">or integer and
storeamounts of cents, not dollars. </font><br />