Re: [HACKERS] Numeric with '-'

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Au contraire.  The real issue here is how to decide which numeric type
> to use for an undecorated but numeric-looking literal token.  I don't

You lost me. How does that relate to the character types? You are not
suggesting that '123.456' should be considered a number? It seems pretty
clear to me that anything of the form [0-9]+ is an integer, something with
an 'e' in it is a float, and something with only digits and decimal points
is numeric. If passing around an 'numeric' object is too expensive, keep
it as a string for a while longer. As you did.

> think that's a non-mainstream problem, and I definitely don't think
> that telling the odd-datatype crowd to take a hike will help fix it.

It remains to be shown how big that "hike", if at all existent, would be
...

-- 
Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders vaeg 10:115
peter_e@gmx.net                   75262 Uppsala
http://yi.org/peter-e/            Sweden