monetary data

Started by John Brownealmost 21 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1John Browne
jkbrowne@gmail.com

I was just curious how you guys implement storage / calculation of
monetary data in postgresql. The docs say to use the numeric data
type, but I'm curious what precision is typically defined for storing
monetary data in the numeric data type.

Thanks for any info...

#2Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: John Browne (#1)
Re: monetary data

John Browne wrote:

I was just curious how you guys implement storage / calculation of
monetary data in postgresql. The docs say to use the numeric data
type, but I'm curious what precision is typically defined for storing
monetary data in the numeric data type.

We use numeric(10,2)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Thanks for any info...

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