Re: Monetary Data Types Improvement

On 3/20/24 11:07 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 10:59, Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name 
> <mailto:ewie@ewie.name>> wrote:
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>     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
>     <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
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20071009123315.5fb283c1.darcy%40druid.net>
> 
> 
> Sadly that was a mistake. Money is not really a useful type.

Here's[1] the latest "let's remove money" discussion (there's allegedly 
a hackers thread too, but I'm having trouble finding it.

+1 on reinstating the deprecation notice, given it'll be some years 
before we can fully remove it (at least based on the discussion).

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/18240-c5da758d7dc1ecf0%40postgresql.org