<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Monetary Types</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Data Types" HREF="datatype.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Data Types" HREF="datatype.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Character Types" HREF="datatype-character.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 8. Data Types</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype-character.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="DATATYPE-MONEY" >8.2. Monetary Types</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The <TT CLASS="TYPE" >money</TT > type is deprecated. Use <TT CLASS="TYPE" >numeric</TT > or <TT CLASS="TYPE" >decimal</TT > instead, in combination with the <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >to_char</CODE > function. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > The <TT CLASS="TYPE" >money</TT > type stores a currency amount with a fixed fractional precision; see <A HREF="datatype-money.html#DATATYPE-MONEY-TABLE" >Table 8-3</A >. Input is accepted in a variety of formats, including integer and floating-point literals, as well as <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"typical"</SPAN > currency formatting, such as <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >'$1,000.00'</TT >. Output is generally in the latter form but depends on the locale. </P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="DATATYPE-MONEY-TABLE" ></A ><P ><B >Table 8-3. Monetary Types</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >Name</TH ><TH >Storage Size</TH ><TH >Description</TH ><TH >Range</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD >money</TD ><TD >4 bytes</TD ><TD >currency amount</TD ><TD >-21474836.48 to +21474836.47</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype-character.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Data Types</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="datatype.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Character Types</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >