Re: How useful is the money datatype?

2009/10/3 Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>

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> Here's how I represent currency values:
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> CREATE DOMAIN currency
> AS numeric(10,2);
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See, I can understand why someone might take the extra step to create a
domain for storing monetary units. The fact that money is in the
documentation, but contains no notes to explain that it's only there for
backward-compatibility lead me to wonder if it still had relevance, which I
gather it doesn't really. I'll avoid using it as it only appears to
introduce unnecessary limitations with very little advantages.

Thom