On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:40, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:2,3 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
