From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
---|---|
To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [BUGS] wrong behavior using to_char() |
Date: | 2007-02-13 02:01:19 |
Message-ID: | 200702130201.l1D21Ju24541@momjian.us |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-bugs pgsql-patches |
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Should we really go introducing strange misbehaviors into our code to
> work around an admitted glibc bug?
Seems there is no interest in handling this specific case, so I withdraw
the patch, but I have added a comment with a date in case we need to
revisit it.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
+ If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Floyd Shackelford | 2007-02-13 03:53:52 | BUG #2997: parse error: setObject("2004-August-15", java.sql.Types.DATE) |
Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2007-02-13 00:00:34 | Re: BUG #2994: avg() calculates wrong on Interval-type |
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Greg Smith | 2007-02-13 06:08:04 | Re: New features for pgbench |
Previous Message | Greg Smith | 2007-02-13 01:12:34 | Re: New features for pgbench |