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		rpedela on Oct 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuat... Support for arbitrary-precision decimal. Known as numeric/decimal in Postgres. This can be a problem for financial and scientific applications.

spongle on Oct 4, 2013 [–]

Yep we canned it because of that, plus it was unreliable and our code and architectural review scared the shit out of us.

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