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 ways, with the following results: CAST(amount AS numeric) -> "cannot cast type money to numeric" CAST(amount AS numeric(10,2)) -> "cannot cast type money to numeric" CAST(amount AS decimal) -> "cannot cast type money to numeric" CAST(amount AS text) -> "cannot cast type money to text" CAST(amount AS varchar) -> "cannot cast type money to character varying" to_char(money) -> "function to_char(money) does not exist" ~ Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:22 PM > To: Ken Winter > Cc: PostgreSQL pg-general List > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields > > 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 it would be to backup the table and edit the table > definition from the file. Make the money a numeric. Then reload the > table from the backup. > > Sincerely, > > Joshua D. Drake > >
