From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: lucas@presserv.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Convert numeric to money
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:30:14 -0500
Message-ID: <20050722173014.GB29782@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050722110340.4ogyzmonnny800sc@www.presserv.org>
References: <20050722110340.4ogyzmonnny800sc@www.presserv.org>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:03:40 -0300,
lucas@presserv.org wrote:
> Hi.
> I have searched in mailing-list archives about converting types, but I couldn't
> found a function or clause that convert a numeric type to money type.
> How Can I convert this types?
>
> => select '1234'::money;
> money
> ------------
> R$1.234,00
>
> => select '1234'::numeric::money;
> ERROR: cannot cast type numeric to money
>
> The problem is becouse I have a table with "numeric" field, and I need to show
> it like "money" type (R$ 1.234,00). Is there a function to convert it??? Or is
> there a function to mask the numeric field to show like money (with
> R$x.xxx,xx)???
You probably want to use to_char to convert the numeric value to a string
which can be displayed.
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