title: What is the difference between decimal and numeric in Postgres?
body: <p>I'm changing a column in the database from "money" to "numeric" per some previous advice here.</p>
  
  <p>Looking through the data types in postgres -- <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-numeric.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-numeric.html</a> -- I can't see any differences between numeric and decimal in the descriptions.</p>
  
  <p>What is the difference between decimal and numeric, and is there any reason  I should use numeric instead of decimal for prices in my database?</p>