<Para>
The <Type>money</Type> type supports US-style currency with fixed decimal point representation.
+If <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> is compiled with USE_LOCALE then the money type
+should use the monetary conventions defined for locale(7).
<Para>
<TABLE TOCENTRY="1">
</Para>
<Para>
-The <FirstTerm>exact numerics</FirstTerm> <Type>decimal</Type> and <Type>numeric</Type>
-have fully implemented syntax but currently (<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> v6.3)
- support only a small range of precision and/or range values.
+The <FirstTerm>numeric</FirstTerm>
+should eventually replace the money type. It has a
+fully implemented syntax but currently (<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> v6.3)
+ support only a small range of precision and/or range values and cannot substitute for
+the money type.
</Para>
</Sect1>
<Para>
<Note>
-<Title>Caveat</Title>
+<Title>Author</Title>
<Para>
This extraction from an e-mail sent by
<ULink url="mailto:selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov">Eugene Selkov Jr.</ULink>
contains good information
on GiST. Hopefully we will learn more in the future and update this information.
-- thomas
+- thomas 1998-03-01
</Para>
</Note>
error doing
<ProgramListing>
-test=> create index pix on polytmp using gist (p:box gist_poly_ops) with
-(islossy);
+test=> create index pix on polytmp
+test-> using gist (p:box gist_poly_ops) with (islossy);
ERROR: cannot open pix
(PostgreSQL 6.3 Sun Feb 1 14:57:30 EST 1998)
<Para>
1. I failed to make use of the original (HPUX) Makefile and rearranged
- the Makefile from the ancient postgres95 tutorial to do the job. I
-tried
+ the Makefile from the ancient postgres95 tutorial to do the job. I tried
to keep it generic, but I am a very poor makefile writer -- just did
some monkey work. Sorry about that, but I guess it is now a little
more portable that the original makefile.