Re: monetary bug

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi@yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-22T19:40:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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