Re: [GENERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

Shane Ambler wrote:
...

I think the steps Joshua is referring to are -

1. pg_dump -t mytable_with_money mydb > mytable_backup.sql
2. edit table definition in backup file to use numeric
3. remove $ and , from money column data
4. DROP TABLE mytable_with_money
5. psql < mytable_backup.sql

While the data is in a text file regex tasks to remove the money formatting become a lot simpler.

to_char() and back to numeric shouldn't be a problem within the database
and we have regex too if anything fails. I don't think you need to
dump and edit the dump to achive that.

Regards
Tino

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