Re: Money reformatting

Have you thought about using the numeric type. I believe that they
money type is deprecated.

Jason

"Rich Ryan" <rich(at)usedcars(dot)com> writes:

> I have a price field of type 'money'. 90% of the time, the output
> format of money $x.xx, is great. But occasionally I need to strip
> the $ and truncate the decimal places, i.e. turn it into an int. Is
> there any easy way to do this? None of the built-in postgres text
> formatting functions take the money type as an arg. I tried type
> casting, but that didn't work either. I tried to check the mail list
> archives, but it's been down for about 2-3 days. Error I get is An
> error occured! connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection
> refused Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'db.postgresql.org'
> and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5437?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Rich
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