Harald Fuchs wrote:

I can't imagine any reason to use a type other than DECIMAL for a
currency value.

A reason could be performance. Storing cent values in an INT field is more efficient.

Are you saying that storing and/or retrieving a DECIMAL value takes appreciably more time than an INTEGER?

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