-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.211 2007/10/21 20:04:37 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.212 2007/11/05 12:02:20 darcy Exp $ -->
<chapter id="datatype">
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
<sect1 id="datatype-money">
<title>Monetary Types</title>
- <note>
- <para>
- The <type>money</type> type is deprecated. Use
- <type>numeric</type> or <type>decimal</type> instead, in
- combination with the <function>to_char</function> function.
- </para>
- </note>
-
<para>
The <type>money</type> type stores a currency amount with a fixed
fractional precision; see <xref
Output is generally in the latter form but depends on the locale.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Since the output of this data type is locale-sensitive, it may not
+ work to load <type>money</> data into a database that has a different
+ setting of <varname>lc_monetary</>. To avoid problems, before
+ restoring a dump make sure <varname>lc_monetary</> has the same or
+ equivalent value as in the database that was dumped.
+ </para>
+
<table id="datatype-money-table">
<title>Monetary Types</title>
<tgroup cols="4">