Tom Lane wrote:
> We keep hoping someone will step up to the plate and rewrite it,
> instead. Per previous discussion, the type really ought to be a thin
> layer over "numeric", with most likely no operations of its own
> except I/O conversion.

And what would it do with it?  Add a currency symbol?  Which one?  Which 
form?  Where?  Format the numbers some way?  Sounds like a big mess.  
Drop it and use to_char.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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