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On 2024-02-14 10:02:37 -0500, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>         "Fiscal year" double precision,
> 
> This column is an INTEGER in your other table, so your schema is not even
> internally consistent! Try to use TEXT, INT, DATE and TIMESTAMPTZ whenever
> possible,

While using double precision for fiscal year is rather grotesque
overkill (smallint would be sufficient) it isn't wrong: Any value you
could conceivably want to store for a fiscal year fits nicely (with lots
of room to spare) into a double precision.

I agree that consistency would be nice, though.

        hp

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