On 3/20/24 11:07 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 10:59, Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name <mailto:e...@ewie.name>> wrote:On 2024-03-18 23:24 +0100, David Rowley wrote: > My vote would go to adding a deprecation notice to that section of the > docs. There's some talk [1] about how we discourage the usage of the > money type and that goes on to discuss the possibilities of moving it > into a contrib module. > > My hope would be that deprecation notice would steer most people away > from using it and therefore reduce the number of questions about it > due to fewer new use cases of it. > > [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/zxgh74ykj3iwv...@paquier.xyz <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/zxgh74ykj3iwv...@paquier.xyz> +1 Huh, I didn't know that it used to have a deprecation notice at some point. But that note was removed in 8.3: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20071009123315.5fb283c1.darcy%40druid.net <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20071009123315.5fb283c1.darcy%40druid.net> Sadly that was a mistake. Money is not really a useful type.
Here's[1] the latest "let's remove money" discussion (there's allegedly a hackers thread too, but I'm having trouble finding it.
+1 on reinstating the deprecation notice, given it'll be some years before we can fully remove it (at least based on the discussion).
Thanks, Jonathan[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/18240-c5da758d7dc1ecf0%40postgresql.org
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