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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: exclusion@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #18240: Undefined behaviour in cash_mul_flt8() and friends
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2023 02:09:12 +0100
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On Sun, 2023-12-24 at 13:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> > I'm of the strong opinion that we should get rid of money. I personally 
> > haven't encountered it in the wild -- I'm sure it's there, but it seems 
> > limited -- and most apps that seriously deal with money will either user 
> > either "numeric" or an integer-based type.
> 
> Yeah, maybe we should just do it.  I was pleasantly surprised by how
> little push-back we got from nuking the 32-bit datetime types a few
> releases ago; perhaps this one would likewise not have much of a
> constituency.

There are questions on Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpostgresql%5D+money

But of course it is hard to say if these are production uses or just
experiments.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe





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