| From: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it> |
| Cc: | hackers postgres <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] money or dollar type |
| Date: | 1998-05-11 14:29:52 |
| Message-ID: | 35570B60.BC0D3130@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> I think that PostgreSQL money type should be very useful if we could
> remove the dollar sign. We can't use it with Lira/Peseta/Mark etc.
> In europe now we have Euro. If we remove the $ it will be useful
> otherwise we have to rename it to 'dollar'. ;-)
Have you tried compiling with "USE_LOCALE" turned on and with the right
setting for LC_xxx? The code is supposed to use local conventions, but I
don't know if it works in the way you want. I agree that it should...
> PS: Is there a reason to left justify it ?
That is just an artifact of the column formatting; all columns are left
justified in psql afaik.
- Tom
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