Re: Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields

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. psql < mytable_backup.sql
>>
>> While the data is in a text file regex tasks to remove the money
>> formatting become a lot simpler.
>
> 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. Really a
horrible datatype :(

Tino