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Old 04-12-2008, 06:00 AM
Luke Lonergan
 
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Default Re: New version of money type

Oic - so it's a floating point in an 8 byte int. That probably limits the speed benefits, no?

- Luke

Msg is shrt cuz m on ma treo

-----Original Message-----
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain [mailto:darcy@druid.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:14 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: Luke Lonergan
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New version of money type

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:09:17 -0400
"Luke Lonergan" <LLonergan@greenplum.com> wrote:
> Though this may be the kiss of death, I favor a 64 bit float version of money. It's more terse than numeric and a


I assume you mean "...64 bit INT version..."

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