[Haskell-cafe] custom SQL-to-Haskell type conversion in HDBC

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 20:29, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> Values in data bases often represent sums of money, for which reading (1)
> is
> appropriate.  One tenth of $2.53 is $0.253; rounding that to $0.25 would in
> some circumstances count as fraud.
>
> Of course, values in data bases often represent physical measurements, for
> which
> reading (2) is appropriate.  There is, however, no SQL data type that
> expresses
> this intent.
>

Interestingly, my original exposure to this was math for physics, which
would imply reading (2) if I understand this correctly, yet I was taught
(1).  (Later exposure was for business databases, so (1) was still
appropriate.)

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