| From: | Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks> |
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| To: | Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> |
| Cc: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, b(dot)powell(dot)jr(at)outlook(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Monetary Data Types Improvement |
| Date: | 2024-03-20 15:07:10 |
| Message-ID: | CADK3HHKPZOenEGnYF=X0Aui3+noPMSWyytWmQU3+DXcCnes+bg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 10:59, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> wrote:
> On 2024-03-18 23:24 +0100, David Rowley wrote:
> > My vote would go to adding a deprecation notice to that section of the
> > docs. There's some talk [1] about how we discourage the usage of the
> > money type and that goes on to discuss the possibilities of moving it
> > into a contrib module.
> >
> > My hope would be that deprecation notice would steer most people away
> > from using it and therefore reduce the number of questions about it
> > due to fewer new use cases of it.
> >
> > [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZXgh74Ykj3iWvXKr@paquier.xyz
>
> +1
>
> Huh, I didn't know that it used to have a deprecation notice at some
> point. But that note was removed in 8.3:
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20071009123315.5fb283c1.darcy%40druid.net
>
>
Sadly that was a mistake. Money is not really a useful type.
Dave
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