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Re: Best data type to use for sales tax percent

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On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:46 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> Domains are basically type aliases with an optional CHECK clause, so  
> you could do something like:
> 
> 	CREATE DOMAN sales_tax_rate AS DECIMAL(5,5) CHECK (VALUE >= 0);
> 
> Then, you can use the type "sales_tax_rate" in your tables, etc. just  
> as a normal first-class type.  (The only limitation, right now, is  
> that you can't create an array of them.)

Actually I wouldn't bother with the precision and scale at all.  I'd go
with something like

CREATE DOMAN sales_tax_rate AS DECIMAL CHECK (VALUE >= 0 AND VALUE <=1);




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