Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
And what would it do with it? Add a currency symbol? Which one? Which
form? Where? Format the numbers some way? Sounds like a big mess.
Drop it and use to_char.
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Peter Eisentraut
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