| From: | Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> |
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| To: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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 14:58:57 |
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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
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Erik
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