| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | stig erikson <stigerikson_nospam_(at)yahoo(dot)se> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: allowing ',' (comma) in float8 |
| Date: | 2005-06-19 12:25:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20050619122545.GA32482@wolff.to |
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:17:12 +0200,
stig erikson <stigerikson_nospam_(at)yahoo(dot)se> wrote:
> hi.
> is it possible to use flort values with a comma as decimal placeholder?
>
> i am trying to use copy to insert a table, the table contains a few columns
> with numerical values such as price, the vales are given on the format
> "2345,12", postgresql seems to allow only "2345.12".
>
> can i change the behavior on postgresql to allow ',' as decimal placeholder?
>
> postgresql 7.4.6
It looks like you can probably use to_number to convert the input string
to numeric if ',' is the decimal separator in the locale you are using.
You can then cast the numeric value to float.
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