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. -- /Dennis Björklund ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
