Re: [QUESTIONS] money or dollar type

From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, questions postgres <pgsql-questions(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, hackers postgres <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] money or dollar type
Date: 1998-05-11 16:30:07
Message-ID: 199805111730.SAA24674@linda.lfix.co.uk
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"Jose' Soares Da Silva" wrote:
>On Mon, 11 May 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
>> "Jose' Soares Da Silva" wrote:
>> >I think that PostgreSQL money type should be very useful if we could
>> >remove the dollar sign. We can't use it with Lira/Peseta/Mark etc.
>> >In europe now we have Euro. If we remove the $ it will be useful otherw
>ise
>> >we have to rename it to 'dollar'. ;-)
>>
>> Compile with LANG support and set the LANG environment variable for the
>> postmaster. Restart the postmaster.
>>
>> Then you get your own currency symbol:
>What's happening with EURO sign?

I guess that will need a tweak to libc to support it - I wonder if the
glibc developers have thought about it?

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