Re: [BUGS] wrong behavior using to_char()

Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> Jorge Godoy wrote:
>
> > > In the pt_BR locale, the thousand separator is "". So it should return
> >
> > The thousands separator in pt_BR is ".".
> >
> Oh, good catch. There is so much hack in my glibc. :-)

I researched this thread:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-09/msg00074.php

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.

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