On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 07:36 +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote: > On 17 July 2010 07:26, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > Yes. We should provide a single, well described grammar for interacting > > with objects in the database regardless of client. I should be able to > > open ANY SQL terminal, and type SHOW ME THE MONEY and have Benjamins > > fall out. > > postgres=# SHOW ME THE MONEY; > WARNING: THE MONEY is deprecated in this version of Postgres and may > be discarded in a future version > HINT: Use SHOW ME THE NUMERIC with the desired precision instead.
Funny, but no longer true: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-money.html (although I wish we would get rid of the type) JD > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
