Casting Money To Numeric

From: Thomas Good <tomg(at)sqlclinic(dot)net>
To: Postgres SQL List <pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Casting Money To Numeric
Date: 2002-11-26 19:19:40
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0211261415350.16043-100000@q8.nrnet.org
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Hi All.

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'

I guess my cash ain't nothing but trash... ;-)

TIA!
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