Re: monetary bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: monetary bug
Date
Msg-id 11498.1093203610@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: monetary bug  (Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>)
Responses Re: monetary bug  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: monetary bug  (Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
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Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Are you aware that the monetary type is deprecated and is going to be
>> dropped entirely pretty soon?

> What's taking so long? ;-)

We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it, instead.
Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin layer over
"numeric", with most likely no operations of its own except I/O conversion.
        regards, tom lane


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