Commit f00e5427 authored by D'Arcy J.M. Cain's avatar D'Arcy J.M. Cain

Remove deprecation notice and add comment about safely restoring backups.

As per discussion on hackers.
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<chapter id="datatype">
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
......@@ -834,14 +834,6 @@ ALTER SEQUENCE <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable>_<replaceab
<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
......@@ -852,6 +844,14 @@ ALTER SEQUENCE <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable>_<replaceab
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">
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