Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>A couple of nice visible projects on the TODO list that might be
>>suitable for beginners:
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>>. Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
>>. Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
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>Actually they are both bad projects. The "include file" patch was
>submitted by the @mohawksoft guy whose name I can't remember; it was
>rejected with good reasons. The money type was proposed for removal
>some time ago, and the author also asked not to.
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If the idea is bad it should be knocked off the list. If the
implementation was bad it might well be a reason someone else should
have a go.
Last I recall on money, the only issue preventing its removal was that
numeric formatting wasn't good enough.
cheers
andrew