Re: New version of money type

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On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 01:00:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
[...]
> Oh BTW: 10^14 is not enough dynamic range --- those guys push around
> *serious* amounts of money.  Bill Gates' net wealth is somewhere north
> of 10^13 cents, and he's just a private citizen not a bank.

I do agree that a range in the 10^14 is too small. Even 10^16 seems to
be uncomfortably near to existing values. And thensome like to do things
with (decimal) sub-cent accuracy (think percents and prices per weight
unit). May be 64 bit is just not enough for a tagged money type?

Regards
- -- tomas
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