Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices

<p dir="ltr"><br /> El nov 2, 2014 7:54 AM, "Andres Freund" <<a
href="mailto:andres@2ndquadrant.com">andres@2ndquadrant.com</a>>escribió:<br /> ><br /> > On 2014-11-01
16:59:35-0700, Josh Berkus wrote:<br /> > > All,<br /> > ><br /> > > While there's argument about
hashindexes, it looks like nobody minds if<br /> > > the MONEY type goes bye-bye.  So, time for a patch ...<br />
><br/> > FWIW there have been somewhat recent patches for money and it was<br /> > undeprecated not too long
ago.So apparently there's users for it out<br /> > there. I personally would never use money, but I doubt the gain
isworth<br /> > the cost of breaking existing setups without a warning period.<br /> ><p dir="ltr">Not knowing
howdifficult it could be maybe a fair compromise is to move MONEY datatype to a contrib. And documenting its
limitations.<pdir="ltr">--<br /> Jaime Casanova<br /> 2ndQuadrant Consultant<br /> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7
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