From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [BUGS] wrong behavior using to_char() |
Date: | 2007-02-09 04:29:11 |
Message-ID: | 14701.1170995351@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Ultimately, the result was that glibc was wrong in its locale settings,
> and there was a suggestion to use defaults only when using the C locale.
> However, I am worried there are too many locales in the field that only
> define some of the locale setting, so doing defaults only for the C
> locale might not work.
> The minimal patch I wrote (attached), suppresses the default for the
> thousands separator only if is is the same as the decimal separator. I
> think this is the only area where the default could potentially match
> the locale setting for another field.
Should we really go introducing strange misbehaviors into our code to
work around an admitted glibc bug?
regards, tom lane
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