-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:08 PM
To: Dann Corbit
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A couple binary cursor questions 


"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
> The types I am having problems with are:
> 1. Currency data type.

If you mean type MONEY, it's just an int4.  (There's a reason why it's
deprecated...)
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Sorry.  Brain seizure on my part.  I meant NUMERIC data type.
As in numeric with a precision of 800 (big whomping number types)
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> 2. Array type objects.

See src/include/utils/array.h

			regards, tom lane

Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:25:23 -0800
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: A couple binary cursor questions 
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
> Sorry.  Brain seizure on my part.  I meant NUMERIC data type.

Ah.  In that case see src/include/utils/numeric.h, as well as the
comments near the head of src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c.  Briefly,
it's packed BCD floating point...

>> 2. Array type objects.

> See src/include/utils/array.h

			regards, tom lane

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:01:52 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: A couple binary cursor questions 