Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Contrib C source for casting MONEY to INT[248] and FLOAT[48]

Tom outlined the problems with this patch. We want to remove Money and
have it be part of Numeric.

> Attached please find a patch to cast (convert) the MONEY type to any one
> of the following types:
>
> INT2, INT4, INT8, FLOAT4, FLOAT8
>
> The patch is against PostgreSQL v7.0.3 and creates files in a new
> directory named contrib/money/. I'm pretty sure it won't compile
> against v7.1, but it won't be too hard to fix. (I'll do this when I
> upgrade to v7.1 at work, which will hopefully happen sooner rather than
> later.)
>
> I wrote this because I needed to convert MONEY to a standard decimal
> value and didn't want to do it on the client in Perl, and I didn't want
> to use a plpgsql function that used string parsing. Both solutions were
> too inefficient for my needs.
>
> http://postgresql.bteg.net/mhonarc/pgsql-general/2000-01/msg00446.html
>
> I wouldn't have used the MONEY type in the first place if I had known it
> was deprecated, but I didn't see this notice in the v7.0.3 documentation
> two to three months ago when designing the database. Oh well, my loss
> is your gain. :^)
>
> I've attempted to set the Reply-To field to pgsql-hackers, but please
> copy me on any posts as well.
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Dave

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