Re: [GENERAL] Extracting data from deprecated MONEY fields

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