[Wonder-disc] "amount" prototype

[Mike S. <ms...@md...>]

In FrontBase, the "amount" prototype is a BigDecimal, DECIMAL(38,2)  
-- suitable for storing currency.  In all the other prototypes,  
that's not the case (it's just a double).  I actually changed  
FrontBase's definition back in Apr 06 because the original definition  
of amount was not a valid datatype.  However, I apparently also made  
it currency-suitable with a valueType B.  Now, though, I'm converting  
something that depends on this prototype to Postgresql, and obviously  
this doesn't fly as I get ClassCastExceptions all over the place with  
Doubles coming back.

There does not appear to be a currency-capable datatype in  
ERPrototypes (none are valueType = B).  Is this an oversight?  Does  
anyone use "amount"?  If not, should amount change to BigDecimal, or  
should there be a "currencyAmount" added (or something like that)  
that is a fixed precision BigDecimal value?

ms