Re: Python interface and Money?

Thus spake Thomas Lockhart
> > > While browsing the mailing list for an answer to this problem I found
> > > several references to the money type being deprecated.  Is that the
> > > problem?
> > They keep saying that DECIMAL should be used instead but they are not
> > exactly equivalent.  The MONEY type was originally written with locale
> > support and displays the local currency symbol.
> 
> Hmm. If we keep the money type then we should change the internal
> implementation to use numeric or decimal or at least int64 instead of
> int32. Comments?

Definitely int64.  Originally I wrote it as long for portability but I
think that the time has come to assume that everything that PostgreSQL
runs on can support 64 bit.

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