Re: Casting Money To Numeric - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: Casting Money To Numeric
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Msg-id 20021127125157.E5DE11AFD@druid.net
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In response to Casting Money To Numeric  (Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>)
List pgsql-sql
On November 26, 2002 02:19 pm, Thomas Good wrote:
> Having perused all the online docs I can find it appears there is no
> SQL solution for casting the dread money type to numeric.
> Is this true?
>
> select rent::numeric(9,2) from x;
> ERROR: Cannot cast type 'money' to 'numeric'

Fraid so.  That's one of the reasons that I had to finally leave that type 
for numeric.  Be prepared, however, for SUM() to take longer on groups of any 
significant size.  That's the one thing that was really nice about money - 
everything was integer arithmetic.

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