Обсуждение: question about money type

Hi all,

when I do a SELECT in a money field, it returns the folowing :

R$2.244,00

what is correct , according with my LOCALE settings,
is there a way to format this result to 

2.244,00 (without the "R$") ?


--Marcio MacedoConectiva

Thus spake Marcio Macedo
> Hi all,
> 
> when I do a SELECT in a money field, it returns the folowing :
> 
> R$2.244,00
> 
> what is correct , according with my LOCALE settings,
> is there a way to format this result to 
> 
> 2.244,00 (without the "R$") ?

Not really.  There was once some discussion about removing the currency
string altogether on output (I even sent in patches) but it was decided
to keep it in because no one will be using the MONEY type eventually.
Everyone is being urged to use the NUMERIC type.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

>
> Thus spake Marcio Macedo
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when I do a SELECT in a money field, it returns the folowing :
> >
> > R$2.244,00
> >
> > what is correct , according with my LOCALE settings,
> > is there a way to format this result to
> >
> > 2.244,00 (without the "R$") ?
>
> Not really.  There was once some discussion about removing the currency
> string altogether on output (I even sent in patches) but it was decided
> to keep it in because no one will be using the MONEY type eventually.
> Everyone is being urged to use the NUMERIC type.

    I  really wanted to add TO_CHAR() function for NUMERIC before
    release. But there are more important items  in  the  rewrite
    system I have to fix first.

    Since  TO_CHAR()  cannot have any side effects I could add it
    until the last hour before Marc starts "closed shop".


Jan

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