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> Or if your language has something specific built in, use that. Unless your language is PostgreSQL's dialect of SQL, apparently. https://wiki.postgresql.org/

> Or if your language has something specific built in, use that. Unless your language is PostgreSQL's dialect of SQL, apparently. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use_money https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use...

pilif 5y ago
It has the same issue that the other suggestion of your parent comment had: it can’t deal with fractions of cents, which is an issue you will most likely run into before you will into floating point rounding issues.
fredros 5y ago
Of course for databases you should use a decimal.