Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2009-10-09, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
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);

why the latter check ( VALUE <=1 )?

I think the initial post implied it was to be used directly in the calculations, no "sales_tax_rate/100", so a fraction is needed. Hopefully no one is experiencing 99%+ tax rates.


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Rod
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