On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Mike Christensen wrote:
I'm guessing numeric(2,3) should be fine, yes?
Numeric is definitely what you want. You probably want at least four fractional digits, since sales tax (at least in California) is routinely set to a quarter of a point. For example, the basic sales tax rate in Los Angeles is 9.75%, so 0.0975. (There are other subtleties in sales tax calculation in California; feel free to ask off-list if you want more utterly non-PostgreSQL-related detail. :) )
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