| From: | Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> |
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| To: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Datatype MONEY |
| Date: | 1999-12-13 11:25:28 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.02A.9912131223290.8544-100000@Panter.DoCS.UU.SE |
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Use DECIMAL/NUMERIC. Money is deprecated, slightly broken, and will
eventually disappear. There are some thoughts of re-implementing it on top
of numeric as a collection of formatting functions in essence, so with
numeric (or decimal) you'll be fit for the future.
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I somehow remember the MONEY datatype has some problems and might be
> removed. Now I didn´t follow this topic closely enough, but now I've
> encountered I could use it pretty well. Of course a DECIMAL datatype fits
> the bill as good since I do not need the currency symbol in psql's output.
>
> Before I set up my DB I'd like to know which type to prefer.
>
> Michael
>
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