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