On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 03:46:39PM -0400, Justin wrote: >> Thats a good Question is the Money type ever going to die i believe it was >> deprecated several versions ago? > > I think it was undeprecated in 8.3 because someone (D'Arcy J.M. Cain?) > made a bunch of changes to the datatype to make it more > currency-portable. Have a look in the release notes. Your summary is pretty much correct. The 'deprecated' moniker was for all intents and purposes removed when the range was expanded. For the record, I don't agree with this...IMO the money type is not really rigorous enough to be useful. It's missing tons of basic casts and is just plain weird. OTOH, it's a neat example of a fixed precision integer type. I personally think that it really belongs in contrib as an example of adding a new type...with all the money bits stripped off, as a strictly fixed precision integer. merlin
