Re: [INTERFACES] Spanish format on date and numbers

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:38:19PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > By contrast, we use the system-supplied numeric i/o routines, so don't
> > have full control over formatting options. That may be a good thing,
> > since I would assume the system does a more efficient job than we
> > would.
>
> So postmaster may output a localized number but it cannot parse a statement
> that contains a localized number, right?
>
> If this is correct, I have to honor locales for output but not for input.
>

I would like write "number" version of the to_char/from_char. It probably
allow convert string with non-PostgreSQL's numbers (with arbitrary
separators etc.) to standard numbers. But I have it in the head now only:-)
(it will available in 7.0).

Karel

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