Re: monetary bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: monetary bug
Date: 2004-08-22 19:40:10
Message-ID: 11498.1093203610@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Are you aware that the monetary type is deprecated and is going to be
>> dropped entirely pretty soon?

> What's taking so long? ;-)

We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it, instead.
Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin layer over
"numeric", with most likely no operations of its own except I/O conversion.

regards, tom lane

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