Re: Monetary Data Types Improvement

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/ZXgh74Ykj3iWvXKr@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