"David D. Kilzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Attached please find a patch to cast (convert) the MONEY type to any one
> of the following types:
>   INT2, INT4, INT8, FLOAT4, FLOAT8

Hmm.  It strikes me as a rather bad idea to introduce implicit casting
of MONEY to all these other types --- I suspect that's going to create
a bunch of parsing ambiguities.

> I wrote this because I needed to convert MONEY to a standard decimal
> value and didn't want to do it on the client in Perl, and I didn't want
> to use a plpgsql function that used string parsing.

Seems like a better answer is to use NUMERIC instead of MONEY in the
first place...

                        regards, tom lane

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