Tom you are correct here (like usual), sorry for the wasted thread and time=
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regarding functions that I remembered being there but infact were not.
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:56, Tom Lane wrote:
> Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:
> > Sorry my mistake on versions.
> > darcy=3D> SELECT '1.0'::MONEY::FLOAT;
> > ?column?
> > --------
> > 1
> > (1 row)
> > darcy=3D> select version();
> > version
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > PostgreSQL 6.5.2 on i386-unknown-freebsd3.2, compiled by gcc 2.7.2.1
> > (1 row)
>
> I don't have a 6.5 system around to test anymore, but my recollection is
> that back then, constructs like 'literal'::foo::bar were collapsed into
> 'literal'::bar --- so the above doesn't prove 6.5 could actually convert
> money into float. What happens if you take a money column and try to
> coerce it, ie "SELECT moneycol::float FROM mytable" ?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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