From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks>, 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: | 2024-03-21 19:11:44 |
Message-ID: | e1ba1e0d-d067-48cf-b39f-978c91d5757d@postgresql.org |
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On 3/20/24 11:07 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 10:59, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name
> <mailto: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
> <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 <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20071009123315.5fb283c1.darcy%40druid.net>
>
>
> Sadly that was a mistake. Money is not really a useful type.
Here's[1] the latest "let's remove money" discussion (there's allegedly
a hackers thread too, but I'm having trouble finding it.
+1 on reinstating the deprecation notice, given it'll be some years
before we can fully remove it (at least based on the discussion).
Thanks,
Jonathan
[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/18240-c5da758d7dc1ecf0%40postgresql.org
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