Re: thousands comma numeric formatting in psql

Eugen Nedelcu wrote:
> The new code is broken. Please test it with resonably large tables.
> Do not test it with querys like: select -132323435.34343;
>
> If I use a query like:
>
> select * from my_table limit 100;
>
> I can't see anything on my screen until I hit CTRL^C
>
> If I use a pager (\pset pager less) strange things happened:
> I can't see anything on my screen, hit CTRL^C, then quit psql,
> reset xterm, then less is still running and eat lots of memory and
> cpu.

I did:

SELECT random() * 1000000000 INTO test
FROM generate_series(1,100000);
\pset numericsep
SELECT * FROM test;

and it seemed to work fine. Did you do a complete rebuild/install?

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