From: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: wrong behavior using to_char() again |
Date: | 2007-11-23 04:51:56 |
Message-ID: | 47465C6C.7000306@timbira.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am confused. You stated in your earlier email:
>
>> Looking again at bug report [1], I agree that's a glibc bug. Numbers
>> in pt_BR has its format 1.234.567,89; sometimes the format 1234567,89
>> is acceptable too, ie, the thousand separator is optional. I guess
>
> so I assumed that you were OK with having "." be the thousands
> separator. I think we have to try to get a proper fix even if glibc is
> incorrect. The problem we had with psql print.c is that when we didn't
> provide a "." default we had people complaining about that. The idea I
> think is that if people are asking for a thousands separator in the
> to_char() format they certainly want to see a thousands separator.
>
Maybe I'm not so clear (too few caffeine) but what I tried to say
(suggest) is that we could accept the thousands_sep from glibc instead
of guessing it ("."). I'm fine with the current behavior (at least in
pt_BR) but I'm afraid we have broken some locales (those that a
presented in the lcnumeric.diff).
--
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
http://www.timbira.com/
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