Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com> writes:
> Can anybody shed som light
> on when negative-prefix is supposed to be respected by PG's
> formatting-functions? In lc_numeric='nb_NO.UTF-8' negative-prefix is '−'(8722),
> not '-'(45), at least in the JAVA-world, but it seems the JDBC-driver must use
> lc_numeric='C' when parsing server output. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO / Partner
PG does not consider LC_NUMERIC at all when producing output from
the standard numeric data types (and we aren't going to start).
AFAIR the only functions that do pay attention to LC_NUMERIC are
to_char() and friends.
regards, tom lane