Re: Looking for a function - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Looking for a function
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Msg-id 200202171947.g1HJlwR28953@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Looking for a function  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Yes, there is, but it is part of a data type, MONEY, that we will be
> > converting to numeric some day:
> >
> >     test=> select cash_words(100::money);
> >                  cash_words
> >     ------------------------------------
> >      One hundred dollars and zero cents
> >     (1 row)
>
> Bruce,
>
>   And I thought that the money data type was deprecated because it was
> replaced my numeric.

You could just cast to Money and print that, though money/cash is an
int4 with cents in the first few bits.

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