Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well if we are going to continue to support money (which I am against)
> > we should support the casting to numeric as that is by far a more
> > common implementation of money and we will have mixed environments.
>
> So, you don't use MONEY, and you don't want to, but nonetheless you
> know better than the people who do use MONEY what they need.
>
> Aside from the semantic-gap issue, there is the point that providing
> a cast might actually mask application errors. I can well imagine
> cases where one of the reasons for using MONEY is *exactly* that it's
> not a plain number or easily convertible to one.
Right. I am not thinking of an auto-cast but rather give people _some_
way to cast to/from MONEY, which is what the TODO says:
* Allow MONEY to be cast to/from other numeric data types
Even when we have multiple currency designations I would think people
would need a way to cast. I am trying to anticpate how MONEY will be
used. You are right we don't have any field requests yet, but I am
expecting them.
I have added documentation on the issues of casting to/from MONEY;
patch attached and applied.
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floating-point literals, as well as <quote>typical</quote>
currency formatting, such as <literal>'$1,000.00'</literal>.
Output is generally in the latter form but depends on the locale.
+ Non-quoted numeric values can be converted to <type>money</type> by
+ casting the numeric value to <type>text</type> and then
+ <type>money</type>:
+ <programlisting>
+ SELECT 1234::text::money;
+ </programlisting>
+ There is no simple way of doing the reverse; casting a <type>money</type> value to a
+ numeric type.
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