Re: to_char and i18n

Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I thought to_char already had i18n behavior. What exactly are you
>> thinking of changing?

> The modifiers that are suitable to localize. Month and day names comes
> to mind and maybe others, I'm not sure what the state of the code is,
> but I can say that, at least, the 'month' and 'day' modifiers does not
> behave in a localized way.

Can we spell the names differently but keep to the same field widths?
I can see where it might cause problems to change the widths --- other
than that, no objection.

regards, tom lane