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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