Here is a cast function I wrote some years ago to convert a couple of
money columns to numeric
http://zigo.org/postgresql/#cast_money_to_numeric
You already have a solution, but maybe it is of value to someone else.
/Dennis
Ken Winter skrev:
Right you are, Tom!
In case anyone else is fa
nt: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields
>
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> If you do it within plpgsql it should work. Just assign the money value
> to a text variable (or vice versa).
>
> regards, tom lane
CREA
Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> to_char() and back to numeric shouldn't be a problem within the database
>> and we have regex too if anything fails. I don't think you need to
>> dump and edit the dump to achive that.
> Ah sorry forget that... neither to_char nor cast to text works.
Hi,
Tino Wildenhain wrote:
Hi,
Shane Ambler wrote:
...
I think the steps Joshua is referring to are -
1. pg_dump -t mytable_with_money mydb > mytable_backup.sql
2. edit table definition in backup file to use numeric
3. remove $ and , from money column data
4. DROP TABLE mytable_with_money
5.
Hi,
Shane Ambler wrote:
...
I think the steps Joshua is referring to are -
1. pg_dump -t mytable_with_money mydb > mytable_backup.sql
2. edit table definition in backup file to use numeric
3. remove $ and , from money column data
4. DROP TABLE mytable_with_money
5. psql < mytable_backup.sql
Wh
Ken Winter wrote:
Thanks, Joshua ~
What you suggest is basically what I'm trying to do. Where I'm stuck is in
finding a construct (a CAST or whatever) to turn the existing "money" column
data (directly or indirectly) into numeric. I've tried to convert a column
named "amount" in the following
On Friday 06 June 2008 8:49 am, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 8:25 am, Ken Winter wrote:
> > Thanks, Joshua ~
> >
> > What you suggest is basically what I'm trying to do. Where I'm stuck is
> > in finding a construct (a CAST or whatever) to turn the existing "money"
> > column data
ERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields
>
> On Friday 06 June 2008 8:25 am, Ken Winter wrote:
> > Thanks, Joshua ~
> >
> > What you suggest is basically what I'm trying to do. Where I'm stuck is
> in
> > finding a construct (a CAST or wha
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> ~ Ken
>
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> > From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > To: Ken Winter
> > Cc: PostgreSQL pg-general List
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> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:22 PM
> To: Ken Winter
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields
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> Ken Winter wrote:
> > I understand from
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-mo
Ken Winter wrote:
I understand from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-money.html that the
“money” data type is deprecated.
Money is no longer deprecated in newer releases (specifically 8.3),
although I do think it would be wise to push it to numeric.
I think the way to do
I understand from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-money.html that the
"money" data type is deprecated.
So I want to convert the data from my existing "money" columns into new
un-deprecated columns, e.g. with type "decimal(10,2)". But every SQL
command I try tells me I can'
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