From: | Daniel Baldoni <dbaldoni(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au> |
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To: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Ordinal suffix behaviour |
Date: | 2000-06-08 21:01:37 |
Message-ID: | 394009b1$0$13733@motown.iinet.net.au |
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G'day folks,
The enclosed patch changes the behaviour of the "ordinal" ('TH') format for
to_char. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the "standard" in
Australia is the following:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th - 9th
10th - 19th
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th - 29th (similarly for 30s - 90s)
110th - 119th (and for all "teens")
121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th - 129th
I think you see the trend. The current code works fine except that it
produces:
111st, 112nd, 113rd, 114th - 119th
211st, 212nd, 213rd, 214th - 219th ... and so on.
Without knowing anything about what's supported (and what isn't) in the usual
I18N libraries, should this type of behaviour be defined within the locales?
*** src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c.orig Fri Jun 9 04:33:30 2000
--- src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c Fri Jun 9 04:35:48 2000
***************
*** 1258,1271 ****
get_th(char *num, int type)
{
int len = strlen(num),
! last;
last = *(num + (len - 1));
if (!isdigit((unsigned char) last))
elog(ERROR, "get_th: '%s' is not number.", num);
! /* 11 || 12 */
! if (len == 2 && (last == '1' || last == '2') && *num == '1')
last = 0;
switch (last)
--- 1258,1274 ----
get_th(char *num, int type)
{
int len = strlen(num),
! last, seclast;
last = *(num + (len - 1));
if (!isdigit((unsigned char) last))
elog(ERROR, "get_th: '%s' is not number.", num);
! /*
! * All "teens" (<x>1[0-9]) get 'TH/th',
! * while <x>[02-9][123] still get 'ST/st', 'ND/nd', 'RD/rd', respectively
! */
! if ((len > 1) && ((seclast = num[len-2]) == '1'))
last = 0;
switch (last)
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