As per discussion on hackers.
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Data Types
Monetary Types
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- The money type is deprecated. Use
- numeric or decimal instead, in
- combination with the to_char function.
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The money type stores a currency amount with a fixed
fractional precision; see
Output is generally in the latter form but depends on the locale.
+ Since the output of this data type is locale-sensitive, it may not
+ work to load money> data into a database that has a different
+ setting of lc_monetary>. To avoid problems, before
+ restoring a dump make sure lc_monetary> has the same or
+ equivalent value as in the database that was dumped.
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