Folks,
Bug reported off IRC:
MONEY Type cannot be cast to any other type, preventing migration from this=
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depreciated data type.
Affects: 7.2.3, 7.3.1
Frequency: 100% Reproducable
Effect When Occurring: Unable to convert, query data
Difficulty of Fix: Easy, probably
Certianty of Diagnosis: 100%
On both 7.2.3 and 7.3.1 all of the following statements will fail:
select cast('40.00'::MONEY as NUMERIC);
select cast('40.00'::MONEY as DOUBLE);
select cast('40.00'::MONEY as VARCHAR);
select "numeric"('40.00'::MONEY);
select to_char('40.00'::MONEY, '99999999999.9999');
This means that someone who has inherited or upgarded a 6.5 database with=
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MONEY columns has no way to migrate them to NUMERIC columns other than an=
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external language script or dump and reload from COPY file.=20=20=20
I propose that we need to restore the CAST(MONEY AS NUMERIC) function so th=
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users can migrate old databases to the new data type. In later versions o=
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postgres, I suggest that MONEY be abandoned as a true data type and instead=
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become a DOMAIN of NUMERIC for those converting.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
