Re: double precision vs. numeric

On Thursday 24 August 2006 20:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni@kymi.com> writes:
> > I vaguely remember having seen a message
> > ' ... type double precision ... will be depreciated / unsupported in
> > future releases ... '
> > or something like that somewhere. (?)
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of type "money"?  DOUBLE PRECISION is in the
> SQL standard, it's certainly not going anywhere.
>
>    regards, tom lane
>
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Well, I have used it for 'money type' like sums and prices but I have never
used the actual "money" data type.

So, false alarm.

Thank you guys !

Aarni
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