On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Wouldn't pg 8.0 be a good release to get rid of the type Money?
>
> (1) there is not actually consensus to get rid of it.
The doc seems to be clear about it.
What does it provide that numeric doesn't? The only extra thing I know is
a currency symbol that is broken in a lot of locales.
Also, people (you?) have been talking about money being buggy, having
round off problems. I don't know any details about that.
> (2) we are already long past the point where we will force initdb
> for noncritical problems.
Clear for 8.0.
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/Dennis Björklund