On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
What are the parameters? Is it an SQL type?
It seems to me a monetary type is a complex type consisting of currency
code and amount -- but you couldn't sum mixed currencies. Or else it is
limited to the currency of the locale, which doesn't seem particularly
useful.
I think that it should be removed altogether.
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